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Such lazy inertia, exemplified by a drawn-out pan of the pupils lying on the grass in sundresses on a summer day, is struck away with a vengeance, though, as “Cracks?? turns nightmarish in its final act. Ultimately, the story is a sordid one. As the film ends, the plot veers onto such a wild, jolting track that the cheeks redden and the hand flies to cover the gaping mouth. But somehow, though “Cracks?? turns out to be a nasty little shocker, it does not feel like trash...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cracks | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...message, can nonetheless sometimes work against the film’s value as a piece of engaging cinema. One can easily tire of the brooding, plaintive gazes, and the zoomed-in, sped-up shot of a blooming flower in one scene is simply indulgent. Sometimes “Cracks?? can feel like a watercolor painting; still and soft and lacking dashes of exuberant feeling...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cracks | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Pertile said that the canoe had “one to two hairline cracks?? causing there to “always be two inches of water in the bottom of the boat...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club Has Canoe Mishap Over Break | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...this situation is and not enough people are aware that 5 Linden Street is the Bureau of Study Council, which provides free counseling to any Harvard affiliate who enters. Given the current decentralized state of resources, it is easy for students to “fall through the cracks?? or give up because it is “just too much hassle” if a proctor or tutor does not guide them to the correct group—and that’s assuming the student goes to a proctor or tutor in the first place.Only centralization...

Author: By Emily C. Ingram, | Title: Scribbles on the Door | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...meantime, however, Congress is wrong to let low-income high school students slip through the cracks??and to assume that the irony of their simultaneous pork barrel spending is lost on the rest of us. It seems that, for now, economically disadvantaged students hoping for a college education will just have to settle for a trip to Pennsylvania and a crash course in weather history instead...

Author: By Matt Loy, | Title: Passing on the Pork | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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