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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just haven't been coming out ready to play," Cowan said. "It's been taken us a while to focus, settle down and find our marks, and we can't do that against Princeton and expect to win. We need to be ready from the opening whistle...
Georgia N. Alexakis '00, The Crimson's managing editor, seems to represent the views of most students in the news department: frustrated but understanding. Alexakis says that "it is frustrating for us. We work hard to get the paper out, and ideally everyone would get the paper." But she insists that "we are all one organization. Every department has weaknesses...
...order. The Quad problems seem particularly chronic. Almost every day, piles of newspapers sit in the corner of the dining halls. Perhaps the maintenance workers who deliver The Crimson need more direct supervision. Students have come to expect The Crimson at their doors every morning, and many of us rely on it to find out what is going on around campus. Student groups use it to advertise, expecting that all undergraduates will receive the paper...
...complete comprehension, Lynch always manages to show something unexpected, something fresh. But is this any less justified of an approach to filmmaking? Sure, we know what's going to happen, 15 minutes into the movie and this fact, coupled with our optimistic belief that happy endings still exist, leaves us confident that Alvin Straight will be reunited with his brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton), whether incarnate or in spirit. But if the film only promised us the potential for factual knowledge, could we sit through it? Not to be a complete moral relativist, but I wonder who'd really care...
...Straight Story is by no means a documentary. The wheels on Straight's lawnmower blend with the turning of tractor wheels. Bicyclists, cars, trucks whiz right by. Never for a moment are you made to forget that Straight is riding a 1966 John Deere. And for those of us willing to trot along at five miles-per-hour, the story is unexpectedly rewarding...