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...episode of the classic Walt Disney film Fantasia, the dinosaurs take over the earth to the impassioned strains of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. An adorable clutch of baby tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...
...from being overpowered, in fact, the batswomen have demonstrated an excellent mixture of offensive power and clutch ability Harvard has averaged five-and-a-half runs per game this season, and has come from behind in the final inning for three of its wins...
...Captain Steve voelkel notched a clutch goal with only a half a minute gone in the final period to cut the Eil advantage...
...course at the University of California at Santa Barbara deals with the religious dimensions of the war. Some 900 undergraduates are enrolled. At most lectures there is a clutch of Viet Nam vets sitting in the front of the hall wearing bush hats or parts of old jungle fatigues. Sometimes one of them stands up after the lecture and tells his story. A few months ago, a veteran named John Murphy described how just 72 hours before he was to rotate back to the States, he found himself in a fire fight. He and a dozen buddies survived, in part...
Another consistent clutch hitter has been catcher Gia Barresi, steaming along at a 360 pace Barresi got the game winnnig RBI in the Holyoke opener...