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Forget about forecasts of a snowstorm today. A bolt of lightning energized the Harvard women's lacrosse team yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Slow Down Minutewomen | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

Orser also skated brilliantly, so powerfully in fact that four of the nine judges rated his performance higher than Boitano's. Clearly the Canadian audience adored him. During his program, the cheers were so loud that it was sometimes impossible to hear Shostakovich's The Bolt. As Orser finished, teddy bears and hundreds of flowers rained onto the ice. When he learned that he had again, as in 1984, placed second, he fought back tears and said, "I'm disappointed. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brian Boitano : This Soldier's No Toy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...nominee. This is a serious threat--one that would destroy many of the things America stands for--and should be treated more seriously than it is now. If New Hampshire voters fail to stop Robertson now, Americans in the rest of the primary states better not wait until a bolt from above does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bolt from Above | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand: Willy was a salesman . . . ((A salesman)) don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...they had a flat solid background plane from which the bright templates sprouted as figures on a ground, and however "wild" the color seemed, it was always anchored within the coordinates of collage or, at least, given the enormous size of pieces like Inaccessible Island rail, 1976, of screw-bolt-and-bracketage. Stella's 3-D paintings all descend from constructivism, and one soon realizes that they mark the end of its tradition with a barrage of fireworks: there is something funereal as well as celebratory about the sight. It seems improbable that anyone (other, perhaps, than Stella) will manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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