Word: boilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held over the Yale Golf Course in New Haven. Last year Princeton came away with the team title but coach Bob Donovan believes that after contending with Wollaston his squad will be in the proper frame of mind to tackle Yale's majestic 18. The individual title figures to boil down to a shootout between the Ivy "Big Three" of Vik, Yale's Peter Teravainen, and Princeton's Bruce Samaklis...
...Zevon, the patented Eastwood brand of low-boil violence and poker-faced absurdity may seem as natural as a song. His father, a Russian immigrant, was a onetime boxer who made his living as a professional card player. When William Zevon wanted to marry Warren's mother, the impending union caused a family crisis that became, 18 years later, the subject of their only son's most autobiographical song. Mama Couldn 't Be Persuaded...
...Braniff award brought matters to a real boil. The airline had been fined for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Now the political wind has shifted from San Clemente to the South-and Braniff has influence there too. Virtually the entire Texas congressional delegation lobbied Carter. Says one airline lawyer: "They hit the White House like dive bombers from the Confederate air force...
...movie is hard to dismiss, for its prefab ingredients are often stirred to a boil. Energetically directed and well acted (largely by unknowns), Saturday Night Fever succeeds in capturing the animal drive of disco music and the social rituals of the people who dance to its beat. Were it not for some failures of dramatic nerve in the second half, this film might actually have been the rock-'n'-roll Rocky it so desperately aspires...
...want to give Loyal Park or anyone else the idea that football is my favorite sport, but the old plasma came to a near boil yesterday when I checked out the Coaches All-Ivy football team for this past season...