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Tharp has already been called a number of things: the Busby Berkeley of the '70s, a modern Nijinska, a female Balanchine. She has also been put down as modish, cute, instantly disposable-a Bette Midler of dance. "I just don't think ballet is as narrow as many people do," says Tharp. An unabashed eclectic, she does not hesitate to combine a Las Vegas chorine's high kick-or a baseball pitcher's windup-with a classic ballet pas. The result eludes stylistic categorizing, yet remains instantly recognizable as Tharp choreography...
...Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here, Sunday, January 18; and Luis Bunuel's Ellusion Travels by Streetcar, Thursday, January...
...last time the University of California at Berkeley fielded a top-ranked football team was in 1958, when the Golden Bears went on to the Rose Bowl (and lost). Since then, the campus has been stirred up more by student rebellions than football victories. Now Chuck Muncie has changed all that. Playing with a combination of power and brains that left defenses wondering where he would strike next, the Cal tailback scored 14 touchdowns, averaged 132yds. rushing per game, and caught 37 passes for 354 yds. this season. He could well be the No. 1 draft choice of the pros...
...became the only player ever to win the Heisman Trophy twice. Despite those credentials, Griffin may not be first to go. According to pro scouts, the man most likely to succeed in an N.F.L. backfield is Chuck Muncie, a harddriving, shifty tailback from the University of California at Berkeley (see box). Rated not far behind Muncie and Griffin is Oklahoma's quicksilver running back Joe Washington. "There's no question about it," says one scout. "This is the year of the running back." It is also a big year for the heartland: 13 of the nation...
Died. Wendell Phillips, 54, flamboyant archaeologist-oil baron who headed the Wendell Phillips Oil Company; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. A onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area...