Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, ABC covered Harvard's romp over the Brown Bruins in Providence, a game in which TV heated the battle for the Ivy crown. Restic, who says he's not even conscious that he's on the tube once the initial whistle blows, believes that players lose sight of the TV aspects as the game progresses...
...overall outlook, in short, is uncertain, but somewhat on the positive side. This may be the year that Harvard soccer recreates its glory days of the early '70s and challenges strongly for the Ivy crown. But don't be surprised if the sky over the Business School soccer field is ominously cloudy--as it was for last September's opener versus MIT--when the Crimson plays its opening game this year...
...work, Strehler is a one-man lesson in the arts of persuasion. Divas and leading ladies alike find him enormously difficult to refuse-on stage and off. Vibrant and eloquent, a handsome bachelor (he was divorced some years ago) who has a crown of wavy silver hair, Strehler is a familiar figure in Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov...
...hair is washed and scissor-trimmed by aides, after which Helmholz himself arrives, torch in hand. Moving it from right to left across the customer's head, using a comb as a baffle, he burns off a few strands at a time, starting at the front of the crown and working down to the earlobes and around the back. The acrid stench of burning hair fills the air. After ten minutes of work, Helmholz shuts off his torch, shampoos the hair to get rid of the smell and dries it under a heat lamp...
...took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final audition next week, NBC will poll 2,000 selected viewers in eight cities on their preference, and network executives expect to crown Walters' successor by Oct. 4-oddly enough, the day Walters makes...