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From Boston to Miami, from Dallas to Chicago, pool halls are back with a vengeance, with yuppies leading the way. New converts chalk their cues like old-timers and gladly shell out up to $10 an hour for tables, as classical music and the latest in jazz and rock play in the background. During the past 14 months, Manhattan has seen the opening of four plush pool palaces catering to upscale players. The Billiard Club, which opened in August and takes in an estimated 1,500 customers on weekends, has a downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Everyone Back into Pool! | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson fumbled a close 20-18 match to Worcester Polytechnic Institute and lost to the University of New Hampshire more soundly, 22-14. Harvard did however chalk one up for the win column, routing New York University...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: UNH, WPI Upset Grapplers | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...Chalk Talk...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: NBA Expansion: We Can't Be So Hot Together | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...these folks for 190 yards and three touchdowns. It was the best day of Morton's career. What do you have to say for yourselves, Jim Smith and Henry Olson. If Big Green QB Mark Johnson can be successful there's no telling how many yards Jason Garrett will chalk up. Bring your calculator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...much the senses that TV misses -- the smell of the chalk, the feel of the sun, the deafening chants that greet every Korean judoka -- as it is the confusion. TV likes the orderly. It cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in The Eye of the Beholder | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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