Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With only two players graduated from the team that Street and Smith Basket ball yearbook picked to garner the Ivy crown last year. You'd think McLaughlin would have little to worry about But after last year's 11-15 overall finish (6-8 in the Ivies), the pundits pick Harvard to bush sixth in the eight team league...
American cooks, with even less time for complex dishes than Sicilian nuns, are fast learning the value of whole menus that can be cooked in advance. Ready When You Are (Crown; $15.95), by Elizabeth Schneider Colchie, consists entirely of what its author felicitously calls fetes accomplies. Her book presents dishes that need "no last-minute fussing. Turning on the oven and setting a tinier, heating a soup, tossing a salad are tolerable tasks." Laboring over a hot stove in party finery is out. New Yorker Colchie arranges her 32 menus by seasons but appends a number of ad hoc niceties...
This Saturday will be Mike Corbat's last game in a Harvard Jersey. He will graduate not having won an undisputed Ivy League crown. But he will also close out his career knowing that he has been a vital part to one of Harvard's best squads in years...
...Hour which opens this week at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan. Another is the release last month of My Favorite Year, a film based on Caesar and his court of writers, including Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. There is also his autobiography, Where Have I Been? (Crown; $12.95). In the book, Caesar, 60, portrays himself as a guilt-ridden obsessive who even at the peak of his success was on an alcoholic slide fueled by two fifths of Scotch a day. Says Caesar now: "Two generations don't even know me or what I've done...
Whichever team wins today will have at least a share of the title, and it this afternoon's winner beats its final opponent of the season--Harvard takes on Yale and Penn meets Cornell next weekend--it will claim sole possession of the Ivy crown...