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Bringing up the rear of the league once again is woeful Brown (0-2, 0-1), which lost to Rhode Island this time, 28-13. Something figures to give this Saturday, though, as the winless Bears travel to 0-4 Colgate...
...bout some stats: A mere 186 yards of total offense for Columbia, including a woeful 53 yards on the ground, three sacks, fumble and an interception. Yeah, but the Crimson gave up 20 points, you say. True, but 10 of those points came off of turnovers, one on Harvard's own 19-yard line...
...upon a more recent time, a 400-lb. biochemist named Sherman Klump confronted the opposite problem. He wanted to shrink and have sculpted pecs, or anyway be hot and hip--sort of like, well, Eddie Murphy on speed--and after a little genetic engineering, he realized that somewhat less woeful wish. Thus was a remake, central to the hope of restoring Murphy to the core of our comic consciousness, born...
...addition to their many other accomplishments, the Nazis continue to exert a woeful hold on the Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers...
...Elizabeth's father, the estimable, dull George VI. From that project she probably got some good sources for the new book. Beating Kitty Kelley, who has been working on a book reportedly centered on the Duke of Edinburgh, she offers speculation on Philip's romances. Her account of the woeful marriage between Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones has moments of perverse comedy. At one point the photographer took to leaving notes where he knew his wife would find them. One read, "You look like a Jewish manicurist...