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...only mistake Linklater thinks he made was allowing a video-game trailer stocked with junk food on the set. The kids, he says, "were all putting on weight." Unlike his local friend, reclusive writer-director Terrence Malick, Linklater doesn't think moviemaking is some big Sisyphean chore to fret over. "[Malick] is a guy who sees his movies and thinks, 'I would have done that differently.' I see mine and say, 'Given the circumstances, that's what I did and that's what I'd do again.' I don't know how much of a free-will...
...been increasingly recognized as a genuine, if highly idiosyncratic, American master. In the 1980s, when so much art was big and declamatory, it was always a relief to come across one of Tuttle's meticulous drawings or his gentle constructions, making their case that the smallest gesture could carry weight. When the noise of that decade died down, the low-intensity virtues of his work became more obvious, even to the market. Three years ago, one of his early works, Letters (The Twenty-Six Series), sold at auction for $1 million...
...breathtaking spectacle of pleasure boats, fancy women’s hats, and Pimms-indulged cheering. A varsity lightweight boat with an in-season average of 155 pounds per man, we found ourselves facing off against the better part of Cambridge’s reserve crew—average weight: somewhere around 200 pounds. Our competition included several post-graduates, as well. The team had set a record in the reserve race against Oxford several months before. We were collectively outweighed by around 240 pounds, a fact that rendered meaningless any comparisons between our race and last year?...
Schroeder rowed without aid of his seat, opting to slide painfully on the bare track for 2,000 meters. The breakage forced Harvard to row with what felt like 160 pounds of dead weight. After the initial malfunction, however, all eight were able to continue rowing, albeit more laboriously than usual...
...Crimson quickly fell behind a Cambridge boat of heavyweight oarsmen. Harvard’s lightweight squad, competing in an open-weight division for the first time all season, gave up approximately 30 pounds per oarsmen to the Cambridge crew...