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...thought we were lucky to win this game. We played at a frantic level. We're better than this, and I expected us to have done a much better...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Outlasts Dartmouth | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...color; others belonged to a white supremacist league. (As this book reveals for the first time, Degas had some relatives among those free men of color.) Not just the Musson family but all of New Orleans was similarly split. Lingering bitterness against Reconstruction was easily detectable, as was the frantic energy of the cotton brokers in the Musson family firm. Degas was captivated even by the colorful strangers engrossed in their quotidian promenade near the Musson house...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Impressionism in the Big Easy: A Meeting of Minds in New Orleans | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

Parker and Dawson heard about the crash on the car radio. Keith Morehouse was home watching The Newlywed Game with his mother and his twin sister when the bulletin flashed across the screen. "My mother shrieked and started making frantic phone calls," Keith recalls. "People started coming over, and it was a blur after that." Longtime Huntington residents can tell you without hesitation where they were when they first heard the news--at the drive-in movie theater, in a restaurant, at a dance. Jack Hardin, a police reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, rushed to the airport not knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Unfortunately, DeLima's Moya does not share in the connection binding her children; in fact, she barely seems connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Ties: Acting Highlights 'Red Roses' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...first half was awful," Basil said. "We were totally frantic, and nothing was working offensively...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Cagers Bully West Point Cadets, 75-47 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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