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Going into the game, most conceded that anything less than a Harvard blowout would be a disappointment. Columbia has one of the worst programs in college football history. The Crimson beat the Lions '30-3 last season. The team lost nearly all of its defense to graduation. And the excitement attending the beginning of Murphy's tenure seemed to bode well for a Crimson stampede...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Not Too Bad | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...screenplay. Meanwhile, NBK was acquiring a bizarre new resonance. "When I started," says Stone, "this was a surreal piece. Now, thanks to Bobbitt and Menendez and Tonya Harding, it's become satire. By the time I'd finished, fact had caught up to fiction. O.J. is the final blowout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Stone Crazy | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

First, Harvard went into New Haven, Conn., two weekends ago to face Red Rolfe Division leading Yale, needing to win three of the four games to pull even in the standings. Game one was a Yale blowout, game two saw Harvard strand the tying run at second in the final inning, and the two teams split the final two games. Instead of gaining two games on the Elis, the Crimson dropped two more behind them...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Frustrating Year Keeps on Going | 4/29/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard (4-1, 8-3), the game ought to have been much more of a blowout...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Cornell Scares Laxwomen Before Falling, 10-5 | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

Even by New Orleans' lusty standards for revelry, last week's finale to weeks of Mardi Gras merrymaking was an epic blowout. There were John Bobbitt mimics, a Tonya Harding on roller skates with a baseball bat, and vendors peddling condom keychains. The 10-hour parade was viewed by 1 million revelers who overflowed hotels and French Quarter restaurants. As grateful merchants totted up the $10 million infusion, swelled for the first time by a riverboat casino, tourist-commission spokeswoman Beverly Gianna pronounced it "a grand and glorious party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down in the Big Queasy | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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