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...character in the critically acclaimed major motion picture, The Waterboy. There is a sense on the IM field that people need to prove something--to overcome the stigma of IM athletic mediocrity. IM moguls argue, perhaps rightfully so, that the sole purpose of competition is victory. But in the context of Harvard pressures and stresses, really the fun factor of IM athletics should be most prized...
...Lauder is one of the leading biologists who carry out experimental studies of animal function in an evolutionary context," said Andrew Biewener, professor of biology and director of the Concord Field Station...
...Robin's parallel courses toward opposite fates, Celebrity, even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...
Engaging as it is, Evans' brisk newsreel is disappointingly too selective. His only reference to the Wright brothers, for example, is made not in the context of the birth of the age of flight but in a photo caption showing Teddy Roosevelt sitting in a pusher plane in 1910. Elvis Presley, who wrought a different kind of revolution, is not mentioned...
...York Senator AL D'AMATO (5) called his Jewish opponent, Representative Chuck Schumer, a "putzhead" in front of a group of Jews. It's unsure whether they took it in its Yiddish context (penis head) or as a modern slur (jerk), but one thing is clear: Senator Pothole's campaign collapsed into...