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This is Notre Dame's first-ever tournament appearance. The Irish qualified for the slot reserved for the top team in the Midwest and the West in the Eastern-dominated sport...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team will be looking for its first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament today. The Ivy League co-champions host Notre Dame (9-6) at 3:30 p.m. in The Stadium...
With the victory, Harvard (11-2 overall, 5-1 Ivy) tied the Elis for the Ivy title. The win also maintained the Crimson's number-five ranking, setting up a matchup against 12th-ranked Notre Dame Wednesday at The Stadium in the first round of the NCAA tournament, which was announced yesterday (see related story...
...tony cast members are made to play against their strengths. Kline buckles under the burden of an Italian accent not heard since the passing of Chico Marx. Ullman tamps down her TV exuberance and meekly disappears into the black hole of her role. Joan Plowright, a grande dame of English theater, plays a Yugoslav granny, and loses. William Hurt, as a dim doper hired to kill Joey, works beyond his range and beneath his gifts. The same may be said of Kasdan. The director of Body Heat and The Big Chill now wastes his time on the movie equivalent...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...