Word: beaten
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...been five years since Harvard has beaten Princeton, and 351 days since Harvard has beaten anybody in Cambridge, and you might as well say, six years since the last Ivy title, because really, the 1981 football season is over...
...obviously sees nobody standing in the way of an Ivy title. "There's no question--they're unbelievable," he says. "They've got so much power." Columbia's Bob Naso, who lost to Yale, 48-17, last weekend, agrees with Anderson's assessment but feels the Elis may be beaten. "I think teams are capable of doing it. I think it shouldn't be conceded they will take it all," he says. "Yale is the best team I've seen here, but I don't think anybody's unbeatable...
...course not everything works. Several obvious jokes are beaten laboriously into submission, particularly in the articles on a fat chef, a "liberated" inflatable lady and the Shah in hell. A promising spoof of those insipid People interviews ends drearily when the same joke--the interviewer not recognizing his subject's newsworthy statements--dies from repetition. The parody also slips up in the celebrity department. Probably because it concentrates on the briefly famous folks in People, it never captures the unique flavor of People's celebrity profiles; the parody doesn't look at the amusing laundry list--current success, difficult childhood...
...Walsh Beaten...
Cornell, which now has a 1-2 league record (1-4 overall) had not beaten Brown since 1972. The Bruins are now 1-3 in the Ivies, 1-4 overall...