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...deputy sheriff on the local SWAT team, started to approach the truck when bystanders shouted that the driver had a gun. Carmona, who was off duty but carrying a pistol, called for backup and moved in, asking the driver to put down his weapon. The man was a mentally ill ex-convict who had murdered his father that day. He looked at Carmona, started to put down the gun, then suddenly fired at the doctor, grazing his head. Carmona fired seven shots, hitting him three times and killing...
With the Ivy League season starting this weekend, the Crimson need its batting to improve. Harvard travels to Princeton and Cornell for four crucial early season tests. Princeton boasts one of the strongest offenses in the league, and a quality pitching staff. Harvard can ill afford to start this season with four losses if it harbors any hope of playing in the Ivy league title game...
...winner Marvin Hamlisch has assembled a score of nondescript pastiche; he imitates the various types of music appropriate to the 1950s setting without bringing any soul to them. A man whose best work was relatively schmaltzy and oft remembered more for the lyrics written by others, Hamlisch just seems ill-suited to the project. A better choice for producing jazzy period music with dark undertones might have been the young composer Jason Robert Brown...
...second banana’s moment to shine. Sweet Smell has those moments, but that’s all that occurs—they just happen. The lovebirds sing one insipid tune after another…well, actually, just a couple between them, but each with at least one ill-advised reprise. Sidney’s big moment, “At the Fountain,” (also reprised as his finale) never summons the right imagery—it’s almost as if they used placeholders from an earlier draft. Shocklingly, this seems to have actually occurred...
...Simpsons.” Jokes about killing Barney and other stuffed characters have existed for years. Furthermore, the love/hate relationship between Mopes and Wells certainly has its precedents, reaching as far back as Shakespeare’s Benedick and Beatrice. Jokes about the Irish, mentally ill and phallic symbols all are not particularly new or groundbreaking either...