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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life, Levine crowds her sentences with painstaking and pained observations noting each character's clothing or the color of trays in the dining room. Thus the reader learns that Sarah and her boyfriend first make love "in Cambridge, in Mather Hall (sic), in the bottom bunk of a double-decker, his tie on the doorknob to warn away roommates..." And not don't even close to the end of the sentence...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Harvard as Hallucinogen | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...know the loneliness of the long-distance runner quite as well as Mary Decker Tabb, 24, who is often so far out in front of her female competitors that she gives what amounts to a solo performance. Last week she outdistanced six top male athletes as well as three female stars by winning the prestigious Sullivan Award, given annually to the nation's most outstanding amateur athlete. One of the brightest of 1984 U.S. Olympic hopefuls, Tabb is only the sixth woman to win the Sullivan. (Past winners have included Golfer Bobby Jones, Track Star Wilma Rudolph and Decathloners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 7, 1983 | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Huskies upped their pressure in the second stanza, getting more and more follow-up shots off rebounds. After several near-misses, the UConn aggressiveness finally paid off. A shot forced Lamont to the ground to make a save, and Husky Laurie Decker pushed the ball back towards the net. When the ball jammed between Lamont's knees, the Crimson goaltender was called for covering the ball, and earned the Huskies a penalty shot. Cindy Dysenchuk lifted the ball into the upper left corner, and UConn notched the game's first score...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: UConn Tops Stick women, 3-1 | 10/8/1982 | See Source »

...waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still trod the floor boards of Server and Emerson, but these stars (Perry Miller forcemeat among them) had only two names, not the three (George Washington Pierce...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Four More Years | 6/9/1982 | See Source »

Distance specialist Jeanne Floyd led team made Debbie Zimic to a one two finish in the 1000 freestyle in 10.26 12 Zimic touched out Yale's Jennifer Decker for second, by only on one hundredths of a second after swimming almost two-thirds of a mile...

Author: By Barak Goodman, | Title: Aquawomen Top Yale, 88-61 | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

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