Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's playoff picture looks as confused as last year's. Will the Lakers be able to capture a thirdstraight NBA crown? Will Boston rebound from a horrendous performance against the Pistons in the Eastern Division finals? Will Detroit parley its playoff experience into the crown it should have won last year...
Cornell (3-1 Ivy) is also in good position to capture at least a share of the Ivy crown. Cornell plays Colonial League leader Lafayette--the seventh-ranked team in Division I-AA--this week. Next week the Big Red faces Yale and the following week, Columbia...
...regarded as the Bismarck of Persia. Flying high on his magic carpet, the Shah seemed out of touch with the forces gathering against him. Resentment of his Western ways was fanned by the Muslim clergy. Intellectuals, students and professionals thought the figure posing in Ruritanian uniform and a Disneyland crown was not Western enough. These dissenters frequently attracted the attention of the security police (SAVAK), whose interview techniques shocked the world and hastened the coming of Ayatullah Khomeini's vengeful theocracy...
Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano and shares a London house with a few other distressed gentlefolk. They might all be sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...
Intangibles: Princeton probably will never live down the result of three weeks ago: Columbia 16, Princeton 13. But the Tigers have lost only one game. The Tigers were the top pick of many before the season. They are still capable of capturing the Ivy crown...