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Word: center (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calculator. You'll probably need it as you peruse this column, because Mark Zbikowski and Tim Matthews aren't your average pigskin prophets. While members of the Cube sit in silent revery and appeal to divine inspiration when it comes to making predictions, Zbikowski and Matthews use the Science Center computer and a chain of statistical formulas to predict the outcomes of college games across the nation...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: My Computer Is My Bookie | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...while serving as terminal supervisors at the Science Center and have been comparing notes ever since. Both use a system known as the "least-squares regression model" to get their point spreads. The mustachioed Zbikowski spent his sophomore year ironing out the kinks in his program, and now that he's a senior is making predictions for the second year...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: My Computer Is My Bookie | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

This collection does not merely ride the current wave of interest in women's films. Center Screen has maintained its quality control in this presentation of highly professional explorations. It is one of the best anthologies of women's films around...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Women, Weddings and War Canoes | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...seems somehow anachronous to speak in one breath of these four contemporary women's films and in the next about "In the Land of the War Canoes," but it is actually quite in line with Center Screen's arrempt to offer films to more varied audiences. "Canoes" made by Edward S. Curtis in 1914, is the first course in Center Screen's independent feature film spread. It was lost for years and has never been shown in Boston before...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Women, Weddings and War Canoes | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

George Stoney's "You are on Indian Land" (1969, 39 minutes) will be shown along with "Canoes." In combining the women's portraits, all done since 1976, and Stoney's politically conscious work with Curtis' cultural fruit, Center Screen is to be congratulated for its thoughtful presentation of art and politics...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Women, Weddings and War Canoes | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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