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Having sharpened his teeth on True Confessions and Dutch Shea, Jr., John Gregory Dunne now takes the "big bite," Mailerese for manly portions of theme and experience. The Red White and Blue even has some of the portentous overtones of Mailer's An American Dream, and like the Champ, Dunne has an acute sense of evil and a highly developed sniffer for the hydrants of power. He is also wickedly funny, if your taste runs to hilarious funerals, jocular murder trials and droll executions: "The warden and I had the prime rib. Yorkshire pudding and strawberry shortcake . . . Last meals...
Specifically, the Crimson wants to win its first-ever Eastern Championships, a three-day meet that begins Thursday in Providence, R.I. Harvard has never finished higher than last year's third place showing, but has the talent to challenge Penn State and perennial champ Brown for the 1987 title...
Things turned sour after that, however, as the Crimson lost to Princeton and then eventual Eastern champ Yale to finish the season with a 5-3 mark...
Having played just over half of his career, MacDonald is 117 points behind Scott Fusco, the all-time Crimson scoring champ...
...want to think that far ahead [to the Ivy Championship]," Lind said. "Brown is the reigning champ, but they lost some people. Princeton is good and Dartmouth has a really good goalie...