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...heard all about Larry Brown and his game against us last year. We think it would be wise if you informed him that we play on astroturf at Penn, which, if he plays on Saturday, will undoubtedly ruin his knees and cost him a lucrative baseball career...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crystal Ball Out of Hock | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...came out playing flat," Harvard coach Debi Field said last night. "We mistakes, and they were really psyched." The unfamiliar astroturf surface and lights of Franklin Field added to the Crimson's woes, Field added...

Author: By Helen V. Scovell, | Title: Stickwomen Shut Out by Penn | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...from his service with the Marines in the Pacific during World War II and later in Korea: in particular, the series of Death Ships, schematic models of the floating charnel houses that vessels (including his own) were reduced to by kamikaze attacks. Likewise, the oddly titled Hutch-One Armed "Astroturf" Man with a Defense, 1976, is a grotesque and sardonic parody of the violent hero, a maimed golem with a boxing glove for a head. If much of Westermann's work is a continuous effort to exorcise the horrors of war, the materialistic defeats of peace get their share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Westermann's Witty Sculptures | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...house at the end of the street in Pacific Palisades is an unpretentious single-level ranch with requisite car port. The torrents of rain that recently fell on Southern California have turned the lawn AstroTurf green. Strawberries, one of Noah's occasional words, are ripening along the walk that leads to the front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better and for Worse | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...LOOSELEAF: Last night's game proved very helpful in preparing the laxmen for Saturday night's game against perennially-tough Penn on the Franklin Field astroturf. The Crimson stands 2-2 entering that contest...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Laxmen Skewer Tritons, 27-2 | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

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