Word: 81st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-winger John Cochrane, whose point work on power plays and tenacious flair on penalty-killing duty is anything but conservative, was named Harvard's 81st hockey captain in a vote by the squad's varsity letterwinners...
...while, confusion reigned in front of the Pru and no one seemed to realize that Bally, a short man with dark skin and a moustache, had placed second in the 81st running of this classic foot race. The Associated Press, for example, in its first bulletin decided Bally was actually Mario Cuevas, a Mexican runner who finished second in 1976. Cynics would say that to most Americans a Turk looks like a Mexican, but Bally did have a half-moon and star on his racing jersey, which is hardly a Mexican emblem. To be charitable, one could say the mistake...
...wince. The special effects are on the Star Trek level--somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building as the pressure breaks open huge wounds in the glass skin of the building and huge windows pop in series. Later, as the fire becomes white hot, the spectral beauty of the scene increases, as down below...
...left to Harvard the contents of his four story New York townhouse where since 1919 he had assiduously nurtured a beloved and burgeoning board of art works. The dedicated scholar or the graduate student in Harvard's Museum Course who was invited to the house at 15 East 81st Street would have been ushered into the still and rarefied atmosphere of a crowded private gallery by a grave and reserved Victorian gentleman, his dignified features adorned by a shining pince-nez perched above a neatly dressed moustache and small beard...
...well-travelled Plante, who came to the Bruins Saturday night in a trade with Toronto, had 27 saves in registering his second shutout of the season and the 81st of his NHL career...