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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization relies upon facilities likeSouth Cove, which is located in Chinatown, foraccess to health care professionals who canprovide vaccinations and blood tests for thecommunity...
After leading Harvard to glory last year,Linden has hit upon hard times the past couple ofgames. Amidst the rain, mud and muck last weekagainst Cornell, Linden completed only four passesfor 49 yards. In the home opener against Lehigh,he went 16 for 32, gaining only 113 yards, whilethrowing two interceptions...
...hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about...
Calvino does his best to avoid these traps and usually succeeds. I am pleased to note, for example, that Pin learns nothing in the course of the novel. In writing about Calvino upon his death in 1985, Gore Vidal said, "He looks; he describes; he has a scientist's respect for data (the opposite of the surrealist or fantasist)." He is here absolutely right; nothing that happens is unbelievable (although a prison escape strains credulity), but it is all quite weird and foreign to a life lived outside of wartime...
...song. Drummond and McNabb combine for some funky bass lines and techno beats, which are also prevalent on the first track, "Je ne m'en Souviens pas." More than ever, Better Than Ezra is more than just a playground for the diverse and profound talents of Kevin Griffin, upon which the previous two albums relied heavily...