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...49ers capitalized on all four Cincinnato turnovers, driving to scores after two fumbles and two interceptions. Ironically, the Bengals led the league in fewest turnovers committed this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49er Victory Climaxes Dream Season | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Housing is certainly the biggest bone of contention in the bargaining. For their part, the Independents are likely to be trying to persuade Vellucci that his liberal stand on housing issues did not help him in last fall's election, where he received the fewest votes of the nine winners...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Who Will Be the City's Next Mayor? | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...compression; works like Masochism Tango ("You can raise welts like nobody else") or When You Are Old and Gray ("Say you'll love and trust me/ For I know you'll disgust me") have retained their piquancy. Surprisingly, it is Lehrer's melodies that show the fewest wrinkles, switching from exuberant marches to minor ballads with a fluency that went unnoticed in his postgraduate period. Gary Pearle and Mary Kyte's galvanic direction aids the songs when it whispers and distorts them when it shouts. Sans extraneous props, the quartet of soloists, MacIntyre Dixon, Joy Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: 11 Celsius | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...Back in college we used to call this the cheerleader syndrome, meaning that the prettiest girl has the fewest dates because everyone assumes she already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Platform for Singles | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...upper East Side of New York City, where he spent an unremarkable childhood--piano lessons and private school. After graduating from Horace Mann high school, he arrived at Harvard simultaneously with World War II. "I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English," Lehrer says, "but Math had the fewest requirements so I went with it." After graduating magna cum laude in 1946, he continued studying mathematics in Harvard graduate school. "I knew I wanted to teach and Math was my field, so I studied Math," he says...

Author: By --jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tom Lehrer | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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