Word: brashear
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...member orchestra, coordinated by Philbert Hong '04, proved essential to the success of the musical as it provided exciting interludes and set the atmosphere of this dramatic tale. Set designer Phillipa Brashear '01 and Lighting Designers Emily Oster '02 and Marcie Ulin '02 worked beautifully together to transform the Agassiz into the brutal prison. The direction of the cast by Sara Heller is also highly commendable. It's not every day that a musical about prison life under a dictatorship with a healthy dash of controversial political and social issues can be turned into something as energizing and captivating...
Inspired (a word that is bound to make realists queasy) by the real-life story of a man named Carl Brashear, who is played by Cuba Gooding Jr., the film is feverish in its desire to reduce his experiences to a compendium of cliches. Carl is, to begin with, the son of a black sharecropper. He joins the Navy in 1948, when the military is officially desegregated yet still confines men of his race to the galley. But he sees Navy divers being heroic and decides to join their ranks...
...Inspired (a word that is bound to make realists queasy) by the real-life story of a man named Carl Brashear, who is played by Cuba Gooding Jr., the film is feverish in its desire to reduce his experiences to a compendium of clichés. Carl is, to begin with, the son of a black sharecropper. He joins the Navy in 1948, when the military is officially desegregated yet still confines men of his race to the galley. But he sees Navy divers being heroic and decides to join their ranks...
...from the jurisdiction of professional sports into the realm of criminal justice. The necessity of this action is questionable; McSorley's suspension has already cost him $72,000, and it is unlikely he will ever play hockey professionally again. He has expressed his regrets and has apologized profusely. Furthermore, Brashear will most likely follow up with a civil suit of his own. So is a jail term really necessary...
McSorley's is not a one-of-a-kind case in a sport where just this season, only 63 percent of its games are fight-free. One need only look at the other 37 percent to see other instances of goons and enforcers going at each other like Brashear and McSorley...