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Nose clearly owes a lot to the Russian folk tale tradition of the nebuival'shchina, or humorous tall tale. Duffy takes advantage of the story's fairy-tale quality and frames his adaptation around the premise of a group of adults (Arthur Fuscaldo, Lee Thomsen and Maria Troy) performing the tale to pacify a difficult little girl (Annie Gustavsen) who has locked herself in a basement room, Happily, this device manages not to cross the boundary from charm to terminal cuteness, and while you may occasionally feel like a little malchik being tucked into bed by your babushka...
...ECAC thought Harvard was falling from the ranks during Christmas break when the Crimson dropped three games in a row. After Harvard edged RPI, 5-4, in Troy, N.Y., it managed to win its next eight ECAC games...
...early January, Harvard scored a late goal tobeat RPI, 5-4, in Troy, N.Y. Friday's game wasdecided by a goal. And Saturday, the teams wentinto the final period tied...
...long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...
...early January, his goal in Troy, N.Y., against RPI halted Harvard's three-game losing streak and propelled the Crimson into a five-game winning streak. His two-goal performance last week against St. Lawrence helped give the Crimson its third-straight ECAC regular season title...