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Parker, who would much rather see his crew tagged as a Philadelphia Phillie underdog, will put his three undefeated crews on the water against three equally as unbeaten squads. By virtue of a record of more convincing margins over common opponents the Crimson has been installed as the pre-race consensus pick by crew experts and Penn coach Ted Nash and Navy mentor Carl Ullrich...
KAEL IS ALL for the underdog. At times she seems to hunger for that ole simple straight talkin' soul, that sensibility set aside for off hours and cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has. I think that this nostalgia sometimes gets in her way, confused her sense signals. When she calls the gangling, gifted loser Pookie Adams (of A Sterile Cuckoo) "a resonant American archetype," I get the feeling that she has gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting...
...basic one. If all you see are bad or fraudulent movies there comes a point when you feel like you've got to make up for so many tough punches--being a non-stop shrew can talk you out of likinig yourself. So you come out for an underdog that doesn't deserve your support. Or if you see only one brand of stereotype any other looks unconventional, and therefore good. Kael is so convinced that the worst sell-out in movies is thinking big that she is apt to be lenient on the small scale, thought or no thought...
Masterson's loss will further jeopardize the chances of the Crimson, already underdog in virtually all the six matches it has on the week-long trip. Harvard will meet Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, the Country Club of Virginia and enter a round robin at Furman University...
Crimson coach Bill Cleary insisted all season that any division I team was capable of beating even a heavily favored opponent on any given night, and perhaps he was right. After all, Clarkson with a spotty 11-9 record in the division beat Harvard. And heavy underdog Penn walloped B.U. 7-3, also in ECAC quarterfinal play. But when you come right down to it, that wasn't Harvard's problem at all. The squad didn't just lose to 'any' team on just 'any' given night. Harvard handled those contests with relative ease. The four losses came...