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...field, hitting only 38 percent of its shots, and was also outrebounded, 49-42. But Harvard managed to overcome what has failed it all season long--turnovers. The Crimson lost the ball only 15 times in its most physical game of the season and combined its smooth ballhandling with clutch shots in the stretch to chalk...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Flandermeyer Leads W. Cagers Over Yale | 2/3/1990 | See Source »

...Yale is determined to stop people defensively," said Harvard Co-Captain Fred Schernecker, whose clutch three-pointers have given Harvard opponents fits all season long. "We're going to run them out of that, though...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Big Weekend for Ivy Leaders: M. Cagers to Host Brown, Yale | 2/2/1990 | See Source »

...executive has ever underestimated the power of sex to sell a show. But NBC's new sitcom Grand is a clanging symphony of suggestiveness. Set in the fictional town of Grand, Pa. -- whose chief industry, a piano factory, has fallen on hard times -- the series introduces a clutch of socially diverse - characters and stirs vigorously. Atop the class structure in this small-town version of Upstairs, Downstairs is the piano magnate Harris Weldon (John Randolph), attended by a faithful but acerbic manservant (John Neville). At the bottom is the chain-smoking Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed), who lives in a trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Banging Away at the Piano Works | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Something about telephones is obscurely comic, related to some manic vaudeville. In your fist you clutch to the ear an object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hoy! Hoy! Mushi-Mushi! Allo! | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Answer 5: This junior guard hit two clutch free throws with time running down to help his team to victory, redeeming himself from prior shanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Please Phrase Answers in the Form of Questions | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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