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...experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck, but for me−and with a horrible smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation Gaffes | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...royalties for Doris Kearns to deck her out in Gucci...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...strongest suit in Harvard's deck last night was its young but parsimonious defense, which except for two lapses in the final stanza, performed admirably and limited Petrovek's traffic to a total of 24 shots on goal, and only a half dozen or so super saves...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crimson Six Shock Vermont With 5-2 Upset Win | 11/24/1976 | See Source »

...coaches," he said. "I'm used to winning. I won in college and I won with the Oakland Raiders and this is just awful for me. We lose every week and the group experience is negative. Sometimes I feel as though I were on the aft deck of the Lusitania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Aboard the Lusitania in Tampa Bay | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...cast her as Feathers, the dance-hall girl in his Rio Bravo. Like another Hawks discovery, Lauren Bacall, she was very feminine but very much a man's woman, easy to kid around with, pal around with-and as good as a man with a gun or a deck of cards. Those qualities have clung appealingly to Dickinson through two decades of movie work and on her TV show, which generally gets high marks from feminist viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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