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...such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy. It was the first state dinner in the Reagan Administration at which men wore business suits instead of black tie. Not a shrimp or crab claw was to be seen. But the Reagans' high style was very much in evidence, reinforcing their reputation as the best partygivers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since the Kennedys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Could Have Danced All Night | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard came back. "We fought back tooth and claw in that first game," designated hitter Chicarello said. With reliever Mike Smerczynski derailing the Quakers, the Crimson pulled to within 5-4 on two singles, a walk, and a two-run single by Brad Bauer, a two-base error by Penn's Paul Kupeha and a triple by Chicarello. And when Allard singled home Bauer with one out in the seventh, the score was tied...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Brown No-Hits Penn; Harvard Sweeps | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play and, finally, some wonderfully stylized hybrid of them both. Then, suddenly, McKellen laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Class of a Very Classy Field | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...times, Merrimack's full court press bottled up the Crimson attack, but only for short periods. The Warriors never managed to claw closer than three points, which they did at 21-18 and 32-29, before the Crimson extended its lead to 26 points at 72-46 with about 11:00 to play...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Mutilate Passive Warriors | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...week later, I was at Boston Garden watching the Northeastern Huskies scratch and claw their way to the Beanpot crown. The UnderDogs were overmatched by the formidable B.C. Eagles, who jumped out to an early lead...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Moments to Remember for a Crimson Devotee | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

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