Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After his burly film of Henry V, his al fresco Much Ado About Nothing and his all-the-words Hamlet, Branagh devises a high-concept Love's Labour's Lost. Hey, kids, let's cut most of the text, put in 10 classic show tunes and set the story in a mythical European kingdom at the start of World War II. He has cast it with young actors, many of whom have done little Shakespeare and less musical theater. So the Clueless Alicia Silverstone is the princess; Scream's Matthew Lillard and Face/Off's Alessandro Nivola join Branagh...
...older people too, memory problems may be the result of poor diet, vitamin deficiencies or glandular imbalances (all reversible with treatment) rather than the classic types of dementia associated with old age. Even if a physician ultimately diagnoses Alzheimer's disease--which is done by eliminating other possibilities rather than by a direct test, because none is available other than a brain biopsy--the news needn't be as bleak as it once might have seemed...
...Nordic side of the mountain, junior Brad Williams also turned in stronger performances as the season wore on. Williams took 54th in the men's 10-kilometer classic and 49th in the men's freestyle pursuit at the Eastern Championships, tops among Harvard men in the two cross-country events...
...sophomores led the women's Nordic team. Julia Silvis led the Crimson in the 10K classic at Dartmouth and Williams, best among Harvard women at each carnival. Classmate Kate Damon also came through for the Crimson in the latter half of the season, posting a 42nd-place finish in the freestyle pursuit at Williams and a 56th-place finish in the 10-kilometer classic at Middlebury...
...team had an auspicious start to the season when it captured third place at the Ivy Classic in early November. Both Picarsic and Mosley captured first place in their weight classes, while Kurtz and sophomore Brandon Rhoades (125 pounds) each grappled to a strong second-place finish...