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...Oscars make me speculate about the shelflessness of the winners. This is a disgraceful and ungrateful habit, akin to looking at a beautiful woman and imagining what she will look like as an old crone. Of course, the point of movies is that, unlike the rest of us, they are not supposed to turn into geezers and crones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Best Picture for 1950 Is.... | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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 »

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