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Charles Kimbrough, who plays the painfully stiff anchorman Jim Dial on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown, makes this performance subtler and deeper and eschews the trademark grimaces of someone who has just smelled something foul. The action unfolds during a cocktail party where he meets, courts, wins and loses a woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paralyzed by Caution | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

Another problem Frank encountered while moving out was the foul odor of the storage center...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Students Scramble to Leave | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

...used to being part of a liberal minority in high school; it was easy to cry foul and charge conservative bias. At Harvard, where liberals abound, the bias slants distinctly the other way. Begrudgingly, I concede this truth to Peninsula. In the De Scopulo section of their latest issue ("Just Joshing"), they report that Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 chose to overlook first-year Joshua Oppenheimer's removal of AALARM posters from a University bulletin board...

Author: By Teshik P. Yoon, | Title: The Shocking Reality of Liberalism | 5/21/1993 | See Source »

Chelius's first warning came after she inadvertently hit a Cavalier player in the face with her stick. Another minor foul earned Chelius the red card...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: National Championship to Virginia, 8-6, Over Princeton | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...dummy money-laundering corporation in suburban Miami Lakes that was initially called Dean International Investments, Inc. Although he was only a hired hand, Darias more or less ran the operation while his handlers feuded with one another and scuffled for promotions. The bumbling agents, among other foul-ups, managed to lose a key recording of Darias' conversation with a suspect, left piles of money lying around in closets and fell hopelessly behind in keeping official records of the laundering transactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Failure of Verve | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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