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Despite the late-game jitters, how sweet success is for coach Tim Murphy and Harvard. Murphy can put the final feather in his inaugural cap--an Ivy League home victory--after three long seasons at the helm...
...something wonderful, depending on your viewpoint. One of the sweetest men ever to practice the sweet science, Holyfield had won only two of his past four fights, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission was so worried about a heart irregularity that it would not sanction the fight unless he received clearance from the Mayo Clinic. "Nobody thought I could win," Holyfield said last Friday during a swing through New York City. "Their judgments were not based on our talents, though, but on our images. It was the monster with hate in his heart versus a man who was always talking...
David (played from youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...
They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
...what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." But there is more to what may be his best novel than that, as its screen adaptation by writer Robert B. Weide and director Keith Gordon stresses. For Campbell (Nick Nolte, all sweet and sober innocence) is basically an old-fashioned romantic, believing that morality resides solely in being true to one's best self. His refusal to acknowledge the desire of true believers to enlist everyone in their cause--whether malign or benign--brings him first to profound isolation, then to terrible grief...