Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly Paul Newman against Jackie "Minnesotta Fats" Gleason, but it was almost as dramatic last weekend as Todd Swirles, a sophomore, won the Harvard University Open Pool Tournament. Tucker Boynton finished second in the tourney, followed by Mike Gering and Alan Kaufman. The excitement took place in the Freshman Union...
...CREATION of the genre he calls "Celtic rock" Alan Stivell had a very good idea. Its realization on stage left something to be desired; nevertheless, the effect was startling...
...there is optimism today in the Dartmouth sprinters' camp. Richard Berryman, a 9.9 sprinter, waits anxiously for a confrontation with Harvard's number-one dash man Alan Boyer, winner of his race against Yale last Wednesday...
...Alan Bates makes a fine, fleet Butley. "Oh, if only they'd get on with it and let us teach!" he moans as he invokes the weight of spurious administrative duties to dodge yet another tutorial. He never allows the irony to become too heavy at moments like that; he always keeps quite the proper balance, making the ruse believable but also hypocritically funny. He is also a master of the throwaway and can brush off a fast line like a piece of dandruff off his rumpled suit. Confronted with a thick M.A. thesis entitled "Henry James...
...RAGMAN'S DAUGHTER is one of those English proletarian soap operas, done up this time with a patina of gloss. The script was written by Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) in what could only have been a fit of self-loathing. An unhappy employee in a cheese factory, approaching middle age and dwelling on the glum fringes of the lower middle class, recalls a teen-age romance with the ragman's daughter. She was a lustrous girl who came riding down his street on a horse, smiling in soft focus. With glistening white teeth and flowing...