Word: sharp
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Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 said Friday that Harvard should own the building soon--a sharp departure from the concern he has expressed in recent weeks about getting the building in time to start renovations on the space next spring...
...Crimson victory bore sharp contrast to last year's 1-0 defeat, in which Harvard dominated the game but could never finish any of its chances. This time, however, thanks mainly to Nagle's poise and patience, the Crimson converted on a high percentage of its scoring opportunities...
...making a picture. He and Levy did not write a script; they outlined a narrative, sketched in some characters and then invited their actors to improvise within those broad parameters. There were no rehearsals. Guest shot everything they did, then spent eight months editing the results into this sharp and shapely movie...
Bamboozled puts fashionable technology (the movie was shot with digital video cameras and transferred to film) in the service of a backstage tale as familiar as 42nd Street. It's Lee's usual mix of slapdash dramaturgy and sharp performances; note especially Paul Mooney, cogent and sexy as Pierre's dad, and Thomas Jefferson Byrd as the Mantan show's announcer. It has big third-act problems, when the caricatures are meant to morph into poignant humans. Then everyone pulls guns out. Insanity...
...still in the early weeks of pregnancy, then a dose of mifepristone, which arrests the pregnancy, followed by another drug two days later to expel the mass of embryonic tissue. She was surprised at the pain, however. "It was more than a period," she recalls. "I had very sharp, stabbing pains." But if ever she had to do it again, she says, she would still choose the pills over surgery...