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Tall, good-looking, and athletic, Bok made good on the family roots right off the bat as an undergraduate at Stanford, earning plaudit as a veritable Big Man on Campus, a reputation he carried with him to Harvard Law School...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Beyond the Mass Hall Mystique | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

...Smith's bat trick and three goals from linemates Scott Fusco and Lane MacDonald paced the 8-0-2 Crimson to a miraculous deadlock that saw the visitors rally from three goals down with just over 10 minutes left...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: 8-0-2 | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...style of athletic leave-taking seems to have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just One More Season | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...year-old wants anything to do with Michael Jackson." Joseph Zaitchik, a University of Lowell English professor, and his wife Holly play chess with their eight-and four-year-old sons. Some of their gifts this year will be traditional: a microscope, for example, and a baseball bat. But something new is also trundling in. Says Holly Zaitchik: "My little one is into cuddly things. He wants a Care Bear, and I've bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booming Sales in Toyland | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...nightclub, where the bartender, played by John Frederick, does an admirable acting job both as Launcelot Gobbo and the tippling drinkmaker Salerio (Richard Rutowski) and Solanio (Peter Vrooman) clown remarkably well in these scenes: they are especially endearing when they mock Shylock's cry of "My daughter, my ducats," bat somewhat abrasive when they snort cocaine or simulate intercourse on stage to make fun of the courting couple Jessica and Lorenzo...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Lost in Time | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

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