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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell lineman Tom Crone made the big stop for the Big Red, and Princeton never recovered...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ivy League Round-Up | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...young people are off-beautiful and went to state schools; no undercurrent eroticism here, no touching except for Mom's hugs at Christmas and Thanksgiving. Clothes are called "good-looking" or "comfortable," and at the most extravagant, as an inside joke, "wicked good." A rosy-cheeked geezer and crone trudge around in Thinsulate snow sneakers--this last is a touch of AARP, Mia Farrow in real time, that would never make its way into J.Crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times At J. Peterman | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...spoke about "crone energy," the energy of a woman "literally being crowned by her own wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bly and Woodman Discuss Gender Consciousness, Promote New Book | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Harvard beats Yale 35-16 in The Game after quarterback Eric Crone throws two touchdown passes in the first quarter...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Flashback to 1971-'72 | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM EMERALD TO GOLD | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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