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...March hoopla of the various post-season basketball tournaments has slowly begun bouncing its way across the country. However, due to the dismal seasons (what else is new) of the Crimson's quintets, the bouncing play off ball won't stop off in Cambridge...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rindge Tech, Cambridge Latin Vie for State Titles | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...with the departure of Ronson, the waning of glitter's initial excitement, and the pressure to move from critical raves to a high place on the charts. The LP's after Alladin Sane were all disappointing. Pin Ups, a reworking of classic British hits of the sixties was a dismal failure. Bowie's vocals are so mannered to begin with that when he works with lyrics less surreal than his own he sounds like he's camping it up. Diamond Dogs was worse, an unintentional self-parody. And David Live took him out of the studio with disastrous results...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: David Bowie and Falling Glitter | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...guilty of defamation in the Massacre in Rome case, has postulated that Pius overlooked SS atrocities because he saw the Germans as a barrier against the greater enemy of Communism. Last week Katz said that Volume IX demonstrates that Pius "did all he could"-but calls that policy "a dismal failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind the Silence | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...Crimson basketball team hosts Brown and Yale on Friday and Saturday in an effort to reverse a dismal Ivy League record...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Six Harvard Squads Return to Action | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

...have such minimal, dismal bathrooms? Mainly, Kira contends, because we "have allowed our taboos and guilts to interfere with the fullest development and realization of our physical and mental well-being." Builders, eager to skimp on space, seldom conceive of the bathroom as an integrated system like the modern kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bathrooms for Living | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

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