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...ably backed up by his teammates in the other five singles matches, including, as usual, number two player Howard Sands. The yardling simply picked apart Bill Schillings, en route to a 6-0, 6-4 win. Howard is "absolutely methodical," Fish said, and is "very, very able to just dissect a player...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Netmen Crush Penn State, 9-0 | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

...playmaker Jon Edwards and center Cleo Robertson, Dartmouth managed to dissect both the Crimson zone and man-to-man defenses in the first half. Robertson repeatedly penetrated underneath and hit for 15 of his 23 total points in the first half...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 77-75, In Triple Overtime Thriller | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...only because we cannot fully experience it in the way Andre hopes. It would never occur to most of us to climb on or crawl under, let alone create, such sculpture. As adults we tend to show interest in something by recognizing the need to "understand" it, to dissect, discuss, define. Unfortunately for Andre, we outgrow the child's ability to appreciate things for what they...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Seizing the Public | 1/18/1980 | See Source »

...exceptionally adept at avoiding the meat my parents continually poked in my direction. Receiving protein in the form of mangled flesh and sizzled blood vessels has never been my idea of nutrition. As to the argument of "faunaism," I have yet to dissect a plant and discover a brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

WRITING ABOUT JAZZ is a perverse activity. It's like killing a mockingbird--you learn little by the autopsy of music whose essence is life. The terms of Western classical music are stodgily inadequate when it comes to jazz, but scholars continually try to dissect it, and the resulting musicological babble about "flatted fifths" and "characteristic negro rhythms" is typically boring and insensitive to the music...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Jazzing Up an Old Age | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

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