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Fitzpatrick’s situation provides Harvard with another subplot. After breaking his hand Oct. 11 against Cornell, Fitzpatrick returned to action against Dartmouth, only to re-aggravate the injury and miss last week’s contest against Columbia...
...sense. Why do the college students balk at tracking down their old classmates, then eventually not only hunt them down but tape-record their conversation? Why does Paul, when given a perfectly good chance to make it in the upper crust, turn it down? The play also features a subplot involving two Utah theater students that peters out without concluding, and an abrupt, unsatisfying ending...
Gross, who is presumably now working on projects more agreeable to his wife, looks back wryly on the film’s contrast with his own career. He is especially skeptical of one subplot where Clayburgh’s character is hesitant to take a “boring” administrative job that will cut short her own research...
...World Series victory would end the biggest subplot in professional sports, for both teams. The moral of this column is analogous to the moral of every graduation speech I’ve ever heard: the prize is the journey, not the destination...
Both films take up a topic currently agitating academics--female bullying--which is central to Thirteen and a somewhat underdeveloped subplot in Freaky Friday. In the former, Reed plays Evie, who moves in on a slightly disheveled but still functioning family and leads the daughter Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) to the brink of disaster. It contains a nice, dithering performance by Holly Hunter as a mom making a living by hairdressing at home while trying to sustain a relationship with an unpromising guy (Jeremy Sisto). In the latter, the mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her kid are magically obliged...