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...astroturfs brillant green surface and black partitioning nets--which divide the cage into four areas--enable players to follow airborne balls better, while the inch-thick carpet provides a more reliable bounce than did the dirt floor, Paul A. Chicarello '82, a designated hitter, said yesterday...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Briggs Cage Doors Open After Five-Month Delay | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

Jeff Samsen--the Bruins freshman guard--shot a brillant 11-for-16 from the outside, and led all scorers with 26 points...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Fall to Bruins; 73-65 Loss Ends Season | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...game itself was not that different from the cagers' other contests this season. Harvard continues to vacillate between brillant and horribly erratic play, a pattern which has become, oddly enough, the most consistent thing about this team...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Cagers Victorious; Holy Cross First Victim | 12/12/1980 | See Source »

...real, a town called Montaillou, clinging to a mountainside in the Pyrenees in what is now southern France. The time is the beginning of the 14th century. The priest is Pierre Clergue, a clergyman who might have made Boccaccio blush. In French Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's brillant reconstruction, the reader learns how the villagers thought, ate, hated and loved-and even what they said to one another in public and in private. Such rare detail has made this lively volume a surprise bestseller in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brave Old World | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Yankees have nothing to be ashamed of, though. Thurman Munson showed his MVP fiber and capped a brillant series with four hits last night. Ken Griffey, a .330 hitter during the National League season, was laminated by Yankee breaking balls and finished up with but one safety in 16 trips. Fred Stanley proved himself a major league shortstop in front of one hundred million critics...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Seeing Red(S) | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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