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...time for the Harvard basketball team to sit down and have a nice long talk. Without some communication and honest discussion, it should prepare for a few more seasons which fit right into the history of Harvard basketball: non-descript, losing efforts. THE WINS Team Record Pct. Brandeis 10-14 .416 Rochester 8-15 .348 Brown 7-20 .259 B.C. 9-17 .346 B.U. 7-19 .269 Yale 7-20 .259 Cornell 8-18 .308 Columbia 8-17 .320 Total...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: The Long Winter: Uneasiness and 18 Losses | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...camera pans around a gray, non-descript room full of chairs. Then cuts to a series of close-ups of old people, mostly women hidden beneath piles of overclothes, their faces jutting out of scarves wrapped around their heads...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Watching the Camera | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...turn a camera or raise a curtain on him and the reticent, barely descript DeNiro undergoes a metamorphosis. In Bang the Drum Slowly, he remade himself into a slovenly, Southern-bumpkin, baseball player; in Mean Streets, into a jittery, petty street hoodlum. Now, with his portrayal of the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, DeNiro, 31, has come fully and formidably into his own as a character actor of range and depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Quiet Chameleon | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...most of the talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes are deepset, big and bulging. He has a cigarette...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Building a Cause in the Office | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

...Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much like the Alps. But Adams is different...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Worshipping A Mountain | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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