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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salle, however, ran its own version of the two-minute drill, scoring nine points as the half wound down before Johnson, who made the all-tournament team, hit a jumper to give Harvard a 45-33 lead at halftime...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Takes Third at ECAC Holiday Fest | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...ball, incorporating Latin jazz standards such as "Mas Que Nada" and two or three pop favorites ("Beat It" and "Only You") into a group of songs for dancing close and reminiscing. Unfortunately, Nascimento often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through. In "Mas Que Nada," his voice is never powerful enough to generate any true...

Author: By Cara New, | Title: Album Review: Crooner by Milton Nascimento | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...energy working through two major structural problems: an increasingly absurd plot and the difficulties of adapting a novel that consists primarily of first person interior narration. Jordan unadvisedly takes a literal approach here, employing the most drab, extensive set of voiceovers since the awful pre-director's cut version of Blade Runner. (Haven't seen it? Don't.) Fiennes, a subtle actor, is forced to explicitly identify every emotional state his character enters. Does Bendrix really need to tell us how "tortured" he feels when we can see for ourselves a miserable Fiennes gulping whiskey and slamming his fist onto...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coldness Overwhelms Romance, Strong Acting in Affair | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...almost soulful rave-up with horns, and as with the other up-tempo selections, the band came off sounding like Booker T. and the MGs in the year 2100. The highlight of the evening was "Flying," off the Contino Sessions. Less psychedelic and more rhythmically insistent than the album version, the densely layered music spiraled seemingly endlessly into a gorgeous wall of sound...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love and Death in Vegas | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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