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...have some serious momentum coming into this," Buriak said. "There's no question in my mind we'll be in the top two, but I really want to crush Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Heavies Leave B.U. Behind | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...there insist (not unlike John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers) they are on a mission from God. "At most places religious education is authoritarian," one 17-year-old said recently. "Here we are encouraged to think for ourselves. When we graduate we will be ready to crush the religious right with the power of our argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HARTMAN: Sage In a Land Of Anger | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Bette Midler will play Mother Earth, and Madonna will shimmy for the rain forest. Tennesseans will ring bells across their state; Oregonians will bang drums. Elephants will crush aluminum cans at Washington's National Zoo in a jungle version of recycling. Manhattan will display the world's largest energy-efficient light bulb. And the Walt Disney Co. will distribute a video about water pollution, starring the Little Mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Greening From the Roots Up | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...detail of resistance is too small for China's hard-line leadership to crush these days, despite the lifting of martial law in Beijing last January. The campaign of repression that followed the June Tiananmen massacre continues unabated, as authorities attempt to roll back all vestiges of "bourgeois liberalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China No Smiling - It's Subversive | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...talk about hitting a man when he's down. The guy has just had a nasty public divorce, Garry B. Trudeau has just sacrificed his sense of humor to crush Trump daily in Doonesbury, Trump's USFL team has folded into oblivion, and here I was hindering his noble efforts to add to American GNP and quality of life...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

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