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...Squid with Backbone Your notebook item "Catch Of The Century" reported on the hunt and temporary capture of an 8-m-long giant squid [Oct. 10]. You described how the squid finally freed itself by tearing off one of its 5.5-m-long tentacles, leaving it behind on the hook that had impaled it. Giant squids may not be the most likable of creatures, but do they deserve such treatment? I think I would be somewhat "active and aggressive" too if I were forced to tear off my own limb while scientists sat back, casually making their observations. Fergus Mahon...
...Unfortunately, the film doesn’t take enough risks to add anything to the subject. The movie seems relentlessly obsessed with detailing the quirks and mundanities of life, but somehow forgets to clue the audience in to why exactly it is they’ve bothered to tear themselves away from their own lives to witness this exercise in filmmaking.At the end of the day, even the mighty combination of Claire Danes and one of the most hilariously awkward sex scenes ever filmed can’t quite hold up the movie. It’s aesthetically pleasing...
...shows his consciousness at distinct stages of development. Nick becomes smoother, more jaded, and less likeable. He also becomes more tragic—and thus more loveable. Several points in “The Line of Beauty,” most notably the end, are tear-worthy, but the novel is no vanitas piece or memento mori. Hollinghurst once wrote that elegy is “the dominant and inevitable genre of gay fiction.” Yet elegy celebrates life while marking death, and in “The Line of Beauty,” life abounds, enthralls...
...will need to mount an offensive charge to capture victories in their next two Ivy games against Dartmouth and Columbia. Without these victories, the Crimson’s chances at another trip to the NCAA Division I-A soccer playoffs will be finished. Wylie, as seen by her recent tear, will be a big part of this run to the tournament. “The thing is with her is that every game she goes out and works harder and harder,” Odorczyk said. “She knows she can put in a game-winner...
...athletic receiver, but even then, I’d just play man-coverage and just run around and keep up with them.”You wouldn’t be able to tell after what has transpired this season.After senior Gary Sonkur went down with a preseason hamstring tear, modest and inexperienced Andrew didn’t believe it would mean anything significant for him.“At that point it never crossed my mind that I’d be starting, because I still had some guys ahead of me,” he said...