Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only flaw preventing Darabont's triumphant second effort from being perfect is the manner in which the story begins and ends. Told as a flashback by an older Edgecomb sixty years after the fact, the story opens with scenes that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film...
...SPAD: I've gone to Great Cuts before. I went to La Flamme my freshman year. I haven't found the perfect hair...
...been a long time since you've been here and you still haven't found the perfect hair cut. What are you looking for? Price, style...
Which brings us to the next category: the hard workers, probably the most deeply anti-intellectual group at Harvard. Some work hard in their classes and can be found at all hours at computer terminals or in the bio labs, and some work hard at not working: scheduling the perfect weekend, planning the cheapest way to hit Paris and Acapulco during reading period or beating the next level on the newest Nintendo game. These people are focused and do the work that gets the grade--or at least gets them by--but ask for their thoughts and their eyes glaze...
...team's hopes have been raised since the Crimson beat Brown 193-106 at Blodgett on Nov. 19. The Bears are the defending Ivy champions. For Harvard to complete a perfect conference schedule, the Crimson must defeat Penn, Yale and Princeton in meets at Blodgett after the break...