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...Vampire blob" is a tag game. Anyone tagged, with a mock bite on the neck, joins hands with the biter and becomes part of the monster. "The lap game" is even simpler: a crowd forms a huge ring, and everyone sits down simultaneously on the player behind. Though "blob" and "lap" may seem like innocent cavorting, they are serious business to San Francisco's New Games Foundation. An offshoot of a 1973 New Games Tournament, staged by Whole Earth Catalog Creator Stewart Brand, the foundation is now a growing national enterprise. Its goal is nothing less than to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: No Victor, So No Spoils | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...innings it looked like the Greater Boston League opener would be as big a nail-biter as the Red Sox-Indians premier last Thursday. But in the top of the seventh, with Harvard on top 3-2, the batmen put the game away for keeps...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crimson Batters Bomb B.C. Bagmen, 11-2 | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

Caramanlis, however, does not have a completely free hand. The Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: I Am with You, Democracy Is with You | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

December 15: Harvard swimming versus Army. The Cadets didn't want to swim against the Crimson's J.V.s, so they got blown out of the water, 98-15. Harvard took every first, and all but one second place in that nail-biter...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 1/22/1974 | See Source »

...Rink, and if you can go by the description above and the result of last season's contest in the City of Brotherly Love, this should be a hell of a game. Last winter's encounter was an edge-of-your-seat, not-over-until-the-last-moment nail--biter with the Crimson coming out with a wild...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Icemen Tangle With Scrappy Quaker Six | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

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