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The Set-Up has been chosen for several reasons: it is a superb boxing movie with a compelling story line, beautifully directed, filmed and edited, and acted.  Ryan provides a Dartmouth and boxing connection.  It is also short:  only 1 hour and 12 minutes.  Further, it is one of the few movies to observe the unity of time.  The movie opens on a street clock and ends on the same clock 72 minutes later.  (Another movie that follows a strict unity of time and a strict unities of place and action is Hitchcock’s Rope which was filmed so as to appear to be a single continuous shot.  High Noon with

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00pm.
The same sommelier who hosted our initial wine tasting is back – Dona’s cousin, Allie Nault. Allie is a level 3 sommelier currently at the Inn at Little Washington. The Inn is a Relais & Chateaux property set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains southwest of Washington, DC. Allie had previously been at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.
 
You will receive and we will be tasting 5 wines in 375ml bottles:

After a November break following John Mathias’s presentation on representing defendants accused of a capital crime, Casual Conversations on Zoom picked back up again on December 20 with Tex Talmadge, assisted by Dudley Kay (on his birthday), leading a discussion on the Civil War.  More than 20 classmates attended, as was the case also for John Mathias.  In each session, some new faces appeared, a valuable aspect of the program allowing an expansion of active Class members beyond the “usual suspects.”