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...hard to judge actors and actresses when they're saddled with this script. George Hunt as the red-blazered, pink-cheeked, Shecky Greene of a circus owner is familiar with Borowitz's brand of comedy. Too familiar, it seems, because he lets himself slip into boring routines and offers the same grin too many times. Hunt has some real stage presence but his voice is weak and his character confused; you never know whether he's Natalie's seducer or mentor...
...their last two bouts the Crimson's number three foil and epee fencers battled the Lions' two best fencers. However, Harvard allowed its best chances for the clinching bout victory to slip away in the previous two bouts...
...park administrator's view, "No one is competent to do the hike alone. It only takes one slip. Mr. Yates had good equipment and seemed a capable individual but he shouldn't have done it by himself," continued Tibbs...
...Harvard goal," the voice boomed, "their fourth of the game..." A Freudian slip? Wait 'til next year...
Winnipeg is jumping. Airline reservations to the frostbitten Canadian city (pop. 560,000) have been booked for months. Hotels are full up too. The cause of this midwinter madness: the last solar eclipse over the continental U.S. until 2017. On Monday, Feb. 26, the moon will slip between the earth and sun, and progressively blot out the solar disc along a so-called path of totality that begins in the Pacific Ocean west of Washington State, cuts northeast over Canada, then darts off and away toward Greenland...