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...team of two fire trucks rapidly extinguished the 6:10 p.m. blaze in the fourth floor suite of the dorm's B-entry. The flames in Canady B-44--which could be seen from the dorm's courtyard--came from a couch apparently ignited by fallen lamp or a faulty electrical circuit...
Although the blaze blackened one wall and portion of the calling Wilson said only the couch and lamp suffered damages by fire and water. "The turntable is tuning about 80 rpm, but it might dry out," he added...
Language might yet have made Ancient Evenings a page turner, and the novel does offer brief, poetic passages. The shimmer and heat of the Nile, the blaze of Egyptian architecture when it was new and radiant with epochal ambition, the perfume and soft light of a harem garden: all enjoy moments of intense realization. But such moods are continually broken by ludicrous sentences: "In either case, my Pharaoh's mind was now concerned with buttocks." Or: "Now, with the redolence of my nose, I watched and admired the delicacy with which the Pharaoh ate." Mailer's historical posing...
Harvard women's basketball Coach Kathy Delaney Smith had hoped to close the season with a "blaze of glory," but what took place at Briggs Cage Saturday night looked more like a sigh of relief as the hoopsters finished their 7-17 season with a 59-46 loss to Yale...
...Crimson will shoot for one more win against Yale tonight at home. Already three games better that last year's 4-21 squad, the hoopsters hope to finish the season "with a blaze of glory," said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith...