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...Tigers chewed up the Crimson’s hopes and spit them out whole. Harvard (10-11, 3-4 Ivy), riding a stunning 33-point performance from sophomore Drew Housman, pushed a depleted Princeton squad to its limit, but ultimately fell in a 74-68 double overtime thriller Friday night. The Crimson has not won at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved just another chapter in Harvard’s depressing history in this small New Jersey town. This time, however, one huge twist in the story made the loss all the more agonizing. Housman...
...this a political thriller? In part, yes. The film has whispered conspiracies, a typewriter smuggled inside a cake box, the sexual compromising of a beautiful woman, a violent death. But those are mere trappings of a social structure that puts everyone at mortal risk, the spies no less than the spied upon. The narrative is a noose, tightening around all the characters--and the moviegoer...
...Goodfellas” has never won. Scorsese’s recent “Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator” are admittedly not his best work, but “The Departed” marked his successful return to the crime thriller genre and was lauded by critics. The clear favorite to win, he took home the Directors’ Guild award last week and the Golden Globe in January.Greengrass picked up a surprise nomination for his tasteful depiction of 9/11 events in “United 93,” snubbing...
...even mention how other genres have glorified Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...pages, Vikram Chandra's third novel, Sacred Games, is as much a lifestyle choice as a reading experience. Fortunately, Chandra delivers in an epic thriller about organized crime in India that is being compared to The Godfather. Chandra, 45, spent seven years working on the book. He was paid handsomely for his efforts--an advance of over $1 million. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Chandra...