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...single run in the seventh off Mike Dukovich, but Harvard responded in the eighth with a run-scoring single off the bat of designated hitter Matt Brunnig to trim the NU lead back to three. Wilson was gunned down at home to end the threat, sliding into the wallow around the plate after a shallow single by eventual winning pitcher Taylor Meehan (1-1). In fact, the dirt areas of the mostly-turf Friedman Diamond—the batter’s boxes and the mound—required constant maintenance, much to the chagrin of the benches...
...comparison). While “Garden State” focused on a character awakening to and experiencing the world around him, “Elizabethtown” is about a character learning to accept his life and all its shortcomings, or, as Claire puts it, to “wallow in the delicious misery.” The quick cuts that overwhelm upon Drew’s first meeting his family in Kentucky are replaced by calmer shots at the end, and, like Drew, we are finally able to see the beauty in his surroundings despite (or perhaps...
...terms, a light German comedy. Which means that Eisi, who is married to a woman too busy to pamper him, is ready for some fat-and-sassy attention. Which means that when they eventually come to intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without reason like an inebriated gyroscope; bring...
Meanwhile, actual Harvard astrophysicists wallow in boring things like “spectroscopy,” “scattering theory,” and “collision processes,” according to the course description for Astronomy 251—the highest-numbered astronomy course offered this year and therefore a definitive source...
...clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...