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...completely different game after the Harvard slugger connected on an 0-1 fastball in yesterday’s penultimate inning.Klimkiewicz, the Crimson senior first baseman, entered the batter’s box in the eighth inning of a 10-9 do-or-die thriller. He ambled into second base, after shooting Dartmouth reliever Chris Lapointe’s pitch nearly 400 feet away into the centerfield gravel, in the midst of a 23-9 Big Green embarrassment.Klimkiewicz’s RBI double, the first of 13 insurance runs that followed sophomore Taylor Meehan’s go-ahead...
...story of the passengers and the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which was aimed at the Capitol building, but crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside when the passengers fought back against the hijackers. Greengrass, who directed “Bloody Sunday” and the unusually artistic thriller “The Bourne Supremacy,” takes his time with the story, building up with almost painful slowness the everyday lives of ordinary travelers. For example, Greengrass depicts one passenger rushing to make the flight and the stewardesses gossiping. At the same time, delicately orchestrated shots of the hijackers...
...tragical-historical” fits “Richard II” perfectly. Sometimes billed as a tragedy and sometimes as a history, the play has always straddled these two genres. This new production attempts to add a third adjective to the description, creating a tragical-historicall thriller. Shakespeare’s original text, set in fifteenth-century England, has all the ingredients of a fast-paced modern tale: murder, conspiracy, politics, and plenty of intrigue. But it is, in the words of Zalisk, “a sprawling three-hour drama.” Amidst the action, there...
...hottest cult movie of the summer isn't even out yet - the wackily titled thriller Snakes on a Plane. Samuel L. Jackson, who stars in the film, talked about it with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel...
...CHALLENGE Adapting the worldwide best-selling novel into a taut, suspenseful thriller. "Because the story is so well known," says director Ron Howard, "the last little bit of mystery I have to offer is how I interpreted...