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...Swinton is no less convincing in less pedigreed parts. She won Golden Globe and Independent Spirit awards for The Deep End, as a middle-class mother frantically trying to protect her son and the status quo. And she's scary-good as two underclass drabs: a fishwife having a torrid, ruinous affair with Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, or Bill Murray's ex-girlfriend, now trailer trash, in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. (She also has a few moments in Jarmusch's new film The Limits of Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...thought that Portland played great doubles against us,” head coach David Fish ’72 said. “I honestly didn’t know what to expect in the singles if they could keep up that kind of torrid pace...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Crimson Downs Pilots in Singles | 3/22/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt—riding a torrid streak in which she had factored into 19 of her team’s previous 23 goals—opened up the scoring for the Crimson with a goal 3:28 into the game...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 9 Harvard Topples No.7 St. Lawrence In Easy 4-0 Rout to Take Over First in ECAC | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...could be. When Freddie rashly accuses Anatoly of cheating, the game is suspended for negotiations. Meanwhile, Florence Vassy (Morgan L. Mallory ’10), Freddie’s Hungarian-American second, leaves her underappreciated role by Freddie’s side and instead begins a hasty and torrid romance with Anatoly...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Chess' Just Isn't Fun Anymore | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...came out in a strong rhythm from the opening tip, going perfect from behind the arc for its first five attempts. The Crimson kept up with early consistent shooting, but it was unable to match the Terriers’ torrid three-point efforts. Harvard missed 14 straight shots and went without a field goal for nearly nine minutes in the first half...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Terriers Dominate the Crimson | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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