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...Russian-born Lewton produced, but did not direct, the 10 low-budget films in this long-overdue package. Yet, heading a B-movie unit in the '40s at RKO, he was as much an auteur as Hitchcock. His pictures had horror-movie titles--The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, I Walked with a Zombie--but they are really suspense films, achieving their thrills through indirection: a shiver of shadow, say, to quicken the heroine's anxiety. Lewton's monsters needed no special effects, for he created them purely in the imaginations...
...blow to Harvard’s efforts to take over the site of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston, the apartments’ owners said in a statement yesterday that they were seriously considering opposing the move of the 213-unit complex. For nearly three years, Harvard and the Charlesview Board of Directors have discussed an arrangement in which Harvard would construct a new building for Charlesview residents elsewhere, in exchange for Charlesview’s current site at the corner of North Harvard St. and Western Ave. The land has been touted as a space for either graduate school buildings...
...happen to our team,” he added. While there is no timetable for the hiring of a coach, the team hopes a new head will be in place by the beginning of competition in January. Whoever takes the reins will inherit a well prepared and enthusiastic unit. “It’s always tough when you lose a coach,” Basilico said, “but in all honesty, it’s really become an opportunity for the team, and that’s the way we’re looking...
Moreover, it must be acknowledged that the metric system is vastly more intuitive and logical than the imperial system. Certainly a meter (which is defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second) is far less arbitrary of a unit than a yard. (Then again, to be fair, the meter was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant...
...goalposts missed you. Now a sophomore, Pelle announced that his rookie season numbers were no fluke with his performance against McGill, potting two goals from his favorite spot: the backdoor. The first was, of course, a tap-in on the power play, a welcome sign for a unit that lost two of its early-season mainstays—Noah Welch and Andrew Lederman—to graduation in the off-season. And his second score, which tied the game at three apiece midway through the third period, provided the first glimpse of rookie Jimmy Fraser, who assisted on the tally...