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...problem had been getting someone who could rearrange his schedule for a year, and to got to someone who is semi-retired and who has had long experience with undergraduates was a brilliant stoke," Bowersock, who had urged Rosovsky to appoint an acting dean, said...
...clever and no real commitment to dealing with the problems of American machismo and militarism is made. The characters are intellectual enough (graduate students at Harvard, dropping allusions to Heidegger and Hemingway!) that only intellectuals will read the story; yet they are redneckedly outlandish enough (bowling and slinging semi-automatic weapons) that they will not challenge any intellectuals to consider their own personal role in the process. Their very redneckedness is in fact romanticized, made "Hip" in the way Millett wrote. In short, Attanasio has created a clever (tiresome) string of one-liners that laughs its way all around...
Harvard's best news may have come from out of town in the form of UMass's 7-2 victory over Yale. That means that the Crimson will be ranked second in the tournament and receive a bye into Saturday's semi-finals. Had Yale won, Harvard would have been seeded third and played Friday...
...frantic fourth quarter rally by the Celtics fell short last night in Philadelphia as the 76er defeated Boston 99-97. Julius Erving led the effort with 28 points as the 76ers take a 2-1 lead in the National Basketball playoff semi-final series...
...called Drivel-make that Dribble-to-basketball fans. (CBS, of course, is already jumping for the hoops with The White Shadow.) Eight pilots are based on movies. Among them: Breaking Away, Foul Play, The Goodbye Girl, Between the Lines and Freebie and the Bean. The flick series include Semi-Tough, The Main Event (also in the sport grouping) and Flamingo Road, which is taken from a steamy 1949 Joan Crawford melodrama...