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...essays collected represent the years from 1977 to 1984. The later ones are the better crafted; Epstein seems to have hit perfect stride. Felicitous phrases, crisp construction, and clever cadences abound. Graced with wit, critical authority, and several rounds of silver bullets. Sheriff Epstein should make the literary delinquents quake...
...normally crisp offense produced just two goals in the first half by Tom Corcoran in the first period and Co-Captain Paul Garavente in the second. The scores left Harvard with a 7-2 half time deficit...
...visitors' defensive efforts, however, were simply not enough to sustain the team. The offense, except for occasional spurts, looked tired, and its passing simply was not crisp enough to elude a brawny UMass defense...
...country to withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings out all the poignancy of an enforced privacy for those vulnerable people whose life is, above all else, their very public...
...University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) boasts last year's coach of the year, a junior forward, who is a leading candidate for the Hobey Baker Award and at the center of the success of a potent first line and power play unit, a junior defenseman whose crisp passing sets up the power play attack, a freshman sensation, who is the son of a former NHI star, and a goalie who the Flames are chasing...