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...took a run by midfielder Mike Smith, who blooms a little brighter every game, to get Harvard on the board at 31:23. He traversed the field from the left sideline to the right endline, teasing the Lion defense, before finding Yakopec in front for the score...
...portrayal of Mariamne, the lover-heroine, but she fades badly as the play wears on, and is in fact, wholly inadequate when it comes to the climactic last scene. Her attempt to do a Juliet number falls very, very flat-it is better, perhaps, to think of her brighter moments in the earlier acts, as she gives an engaging rendition of youth and wisdom, innocence and ethereal presence...
...future for exceptionally gifted women athletes grows brighter: athletics is a meritocracy that, once discrimination is eased, provides a sure upward track for the talented. Women tennis and golf professionals already enjoy lucrative careers; Chris Evert alone has won almost $1.5 million in prize money over the past five years, $453,000 of it just last year. The development of other pro leagues is just a matter of time and the promotion of audiences willing to pay to watch women play...
...power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept the neutron bomb. The busy Christopher heads an inner-agency committee charged with reconciling the Administration's human rights campaign with other policies. And when Vance is traveling, Christopher runs the department. "He's brighter than hell, a very important asset to Cy in holding the department together," declares Vice President Walter Mondale...
...SEEMS THAT in their final days, empires begin to turn faster and faster, careening along and over everything. As the fuses blow and the fires of decadence burn brighter and brighter they whip apart, spewing people and culture everywhere. Then the barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four...