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...East. When Rogan is not clicking with Grieve on offense, he is handing off to Rick Diana, the classiest runner in the Ivies since Ed Marinaro. Despite defense designed to stop him, the fleet-footed Diana has managed to twist and turn for more than five yards a crack, often breaking long runs. If he gets past the initial line of opposition and squirts through to the secondary, watch out. He is devastating in the open field, and his clutch runs last year gave the Elis good position and allowed them to control the ball...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends On Saturday | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...resident life office will crack down on students who abuse hall phones by accepting collect calls on them or charging calls to them, the student paper, the Diamondback, reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $20,000 Phone Abuse | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when he's supposed to crack the pressure of the event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broken Cookies and Bourgeois Mediocrity | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...they don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lehrer Sampler | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...investigation of who seeks style, and why, might have given the book a little more substance. It's likely that students already have too much substance in life to bother filling up their days with "style." On the other hand, students might be motivated to crack this thin volume to find out just what is responsible for that empty social calender on the wall. This, then, is the most obvious motive for reading Doing It With Style: making friends and getting dates...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Get Punched | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

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