Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that Noguchi, a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Tokyo in 1952, is a habitual grandstander. He has been a guest on the Dick Cavett show, and the TV character Quincy is partly modeled on him. "Noguchi is the Salvador Dali of forensic pathology," says a coroner from an East Coast city...
DIED. Philip K. Dick, 53, prolific, sometimes visionary science-fiction writer whose multilayered stories probed the discrepancies between illusion and reality; of a stroke; in Santa Ana, Calif. The characters in his 50 novels (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said) were often ordinary people trapped in extraordinary circumstances whose distorted perceptions prevented them from realizing their own dilemmas. The task of the science-fiction writer, said Dick, "is creating multiverses, rather than a universe...
...mark of the first period. Harvard's Scott Fusco scores his team's fifth goal, and as the "Sieve" cheer rings through the arena once more. Cornell Coach Dick Bertrand decides he has seen enough of Brian Hayward. Back-up goaltender Darren Eliot, no slouch in the nets himself, comes into the game. "Second string! Second string!" the Harvard fans yell. And from the band, "Hev Eliot you're second string to a sieve...
...office barely a month, charged that Reagan's budget "will have a severe human impact." Anticipating a $130 million state deficit even if there were no new Reagan slashes, Kean said New Jersey cannot replace funds taken away by Washington. An aide to Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Dick Thornburgh warned that the Reagan reductions would unbalance the state's budget. "We're not sinking yet," he said, "but it sure as hell looks as though a hole has been shot through our bow and a lot of water is rushing...
...second time in two weekends, Princeton played Dick Dastardly to the Crimson's Penelope Pitstop, thwarting Harvard in the semifinals of team competition, 3-2. Boyum, playing in a separate individual tournament, dropped in the round of sixteen to former and future teammate Brad Desaulniers, who is taking time...