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Luzak trapped the ball 35 yards out and surged to within 15 yards to drill a shot into the left corner for the game-winner...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: M. Booters Roll Past Cornell, 1-0 | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...blow off your clothes." In the same town, he finds the spare, waste-no-words diary of 18-year-old Elizabeth Ann Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon and I went to see the soldiers drill in the after noon it was a plesant day." For Dec. 12, of the same year: "We cleaned some of the ((hog)) guts for soap grease it sprinkled rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

Harvard came out stronger in the second half. Sarah Downing, Kristen Fowler, and Francie Walton made a series of sideline combinations that dumped the ball in Yale's end. The Elis defenders may as well have been orange cones in a practice drill for all their effectiveness...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Stickwomen Prevail in Lackluster Performance | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

...mysteries of, say, detective stories. The text is often witty, if declamatory, but the real joys of the piece are acoustic and visual. Philip Glass has contributed his customary pulsating music, which has the narcotic effect of nitrous oxide coupled with the distant hum of a dentist's drill, yet is curiously pleasurable. Painter Red Grooms has designed the sets in a sort of Chagall-meets-Grandma Moses style that is, fittingly, both primitive and highly sophisticated. -- W.A.H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Framed, but Is It Art? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...marine drill instructors...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Shop 'Til You Drop | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

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