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...staple of our popular culture, comedy division, is the Road Runner--Wile E. Coyote duel, in which the cheerful little beeper continually eludes the inept but monomaniacal chasings of the pursuing varmint. Another less often noted but more sober pop-cultural theme is Steven Spielberg's obsession with children (E.T., Empire of the Sun, et al.) who as a result of either death or divorce are bereft of conventional parenting and wonder if they can successfully make it to maturity. It is the business of Catch Me If You Can to meld these two subgenres in a single film...
...many in the lab are faster than runner Claire Nicholas. The cross-country and track star is looking forward to medical school and then a career as a neurologist...
Cross-country runner Matt Seidel is writing his English and French thesis on the letters of Samuel Beckett. Seidel won the Ivy title in the outdoor 10,000-meter, and will travel to France next year...
Broadbent again led the attack for the Crimson at the No. 1 position, defeating fellow freshman William Cheng, 3-0. Broadbent, the runner-up in the United States Under-19 national tournament this past spring, continued his assault on the world of collegiate squash with a 9-6, 10-8, 9-6 victory...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...