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...skill for silent comedy, but the payoffs shrivel beneath the lumbering weight of the setups. The film is full of atmosphere?it positively leaks it, like an old, worn-down movie house leaks light?but it has little else. Watching Goodbye is like facing off in a staring contest with the director. Except in this case, everybody loses...
...four games, Harvard averaged more than nine runs and 10 hits per contest, while also smashing 11 home runs...
...It’s going to be a very intense game, especially after last year,” said McBride, who had a hat trick in last year’s contest, a 5-4 win for the Big Green. “It’s going to be a battle...
...clock at night," McCall says. "The kids were wound up. I was getting aggravated, so I decided to cut the grass." Not everyone, however, is enamored with his Deere. At a recent homeowners' association meeting, a neighbor asked if McCall might recuse himself from a Lawn of the Month contest, owing to the unfair edge his tractor gives him. McCall says he doesn't intend to back down...
...snap Americans out of their depression. In Canada, as filmmaker Guy Maddin imagines it, a rich woman dreamed of exploiting, not exorcising, the world's misery. Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini), a scheming beer baroness whose two glass legs are filled with her own brew, concocts a song contest with a $25,000 prize for the saddest music in the world. In return, milady will have the ideal promo for the end of Prohibition in the U.S. As she promises, "If you're sad and like beer, I'm your lady...