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...completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Nadas, | Title: Saul Music | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

...melodrama, The African Queen can be seen as a weird-sort-of-pastoral. Allnut and Rose fall in love early in the film and spend most of it being sentimental and affectionate. Allnut shaves, his coarseness quite obliterated by romance, and Rose's up-tightness vanishes after the first clinch; the boat becomes a house in suburbia and Allnut views the tropical wilderness as a New England landscape, saying, "I'd like to come back 'ere some day." Increasingly, they address each other in blissful euphemisms: 'Dear, what's your first name?" asks Allnut, later calling her Rosie and "sweet...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The African Queen | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

Eliot Houses boxers captured five individual titles to clinch the team championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Takes Five Fisticuff Crowns; Weeks Triumphs | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Faced by hot-shooting sophomore A1 Hall, who poured in 19 points, Quincy overpowered second-place Winthrop, 59-48, Monday night to clinch the undisputed A League championship. The Winthrop B team made up for the A loss by trouncing Eliot yesterday for the tittle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Teams Dominate House Winter Leagues | 3/7/1968 | See Source »

...third time in his career, Gustavson stepped to the line and did the job. As he did against Brown earlier, he swished the clutch shots to clinch the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hoopsters Bring Final Victory for Wilson | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

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