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Often the crowd, uninitiated to the finer points of a team's style, decided to root for the underdog--Norway became a local favorite because of the players' tenacity and honest style, and the Cameroons team because of their lively footwork and skill...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: Soccer, Spectacle, and Drama | 8/3/1984 | See Source »

...eight novels and eight previous collections of short fiction, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 60, has emerged as the most influential home-grown critic of her country's repressive racial policies. But that reputation tends to blur some of the finer distinctions of her art. She is not really a polemicist. The portraits of her native land shade softly into irony and indirection; an overriding injustice must be deduced from small, vividly realized details. Her most important contribution to contemporary letters is not a moral message but the brilliant and memorable ways she has found to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of Privacy and Politics | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...finer than Hart, who put on a masterful show while scoring Harvard goals three five...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Straight from the Hart: Laxwomen Shock UMass | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...lessen the dangerous cold war mentality that has descended on the superpowers by sending his vice president. George Bush, to Moscow in his place. Reagan's snub, coming on the heels of a similar turn-down upon Leonid Brezhnev's death, only underscores his lack of understanding about the finer points of superpower relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Ahead | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...There's nothing finer," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We All Knew the Hazards | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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