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...preliminaries weren't wild enough, Acts II and III, after the faceoff, were even more bizarre. Harvard won the opener, a seven-minute blitzkrieg, 4-0. Cornell won the finale, a 53-minute melodrama...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Lynah Mob Rejoices: Cornell, 6-5 | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...unsentimental dynamism, could be his biggest. It has sold more than 1 million copies, fielded one hit single and two excellent Bowie videos that are holding down heavy air space on MTV. The album and its gold-record title track are also buttressing Bowie's current tour, a blitzkrieg that has sold out stadiums all over Europe; in Gothenburg, Sweden, Edinburgh and Paris, he beat last year's Rolling Stones' attendance records. For a charity concert in London, scalpers got $150 a seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Bowie Rockets Onward | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...holocaust. It suggests that a buildup of conventional forces is a credible alternative because it would provide NATO commanders with a greater range of options for checking a Soviet advance, thus making the use of nuclear weapons less likely. To repel the first invasion forces in a Warsaw Pact blitzkrieg across Central Europe, the committee of strategists urged NATO to acquire more sophisticated ground-and air-launched conventional missile systems that could be targeted at Soviet bloc artillery. The alliance should also develop new surveillance technology that would greatly decrease the chance of a surprise attack. It should then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alliance: More Options | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...Tigers play a disciplined offense, so for McLaughlin's crew to pull off an upset. Harvard (9-8 overall, 2-4 in Ivy play) will have to keep the game moving. No such problems will bother the cagers Saturday, as the Quakers like to blitzkrieg their opponents...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The Jadwin Jinx | 2/11/1983 | See Source »

...days before the Germans storm into Poland, Natalie insists on visiting her fiance Leslie Slote (David Dukes), an American Foreign Service officer stationed in Warsaw, and she drags the love-smitten Byron along with her. Through this credibility-straining contrivance, Wouk brings within his action the German blitzkrieg and the bombing of Warsaw. Later, after Natalie marries Byron, she is trapped in Europe with her uncle; as Jews, both are in grave danger of disappearing into Hitler's Holocaust. The persecution of the Jews is one of the dominating concerns of both the series and its author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $40 Million Gamble: ABC goes all out on its epic The Winds of War | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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