Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard won its third-consecutive Ivy title. The win was sweet. In 1985, when the seniors played in the first of what has now become four Ivy title games, Dartmouth walked off with the crown. This was revenge...
...much that we need to make ends meet," says Jon Hilliard, his three-year-old at his side. Hilliard works for the Street Department in Crown Point, Ind., and as a self-employed carpenter. His wife Sharron is a gym teacher, and together they earn something over $60,000 a year. "It's the way we get extra things. I grew up in a poor family with four kids, and we had no extras. There's no way my kids are going to be like that. We want to make sure that if they're not good athletes or smart...
...CAFE CROWN. This revival is not much of a play, but Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Bob Dishy head a splendid cast that adroitly and affectionately recalls the Manhattan heyday of Jewish theater...
Inculturation often means nothing more controversial than transplanting the classic Bible stories into black-African settings. A white policeman accompanies Jesus to Calvary. The crucified Christ wears a crown of cactus thorns. The three Wise Men bear gifts of kola nuts and chickens. More saucily, South African linocut artist John Muafangejo shows Satan urinating in fear before an angel. Sometimes even modest experiments produce scandal. Cheap reproductions hang beneath the Stations of the Cross carved by Kanutu Chenge for a Catholic church near Lubumbashi, Zaire. They are there to appease a congregation shocked to see Pilate dressed as an African...
...There have been 15 Triple Crown winners since 1887. Most baseball fans know that Boston's Carl Yastremski won the last Triple Crown in 1967, when he led the league in hitting (.326), home runs (44) and RBI (121). But in 1909, this Hall of Famer won the crown despite hitting less than 10 homers. Name...