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Rick James's "Super Freak" signals the end of dinner and the beginning of the sixth hour. Most dancers are now showing the effects of all the dance hours logged. Our feet hurt and our leg muscles beg for mercy, but like the climber who tackles the mountain "because it's there," we valiantly strive onward. Donna Summer's "Finger on the Trigger (Love is in Control)" propels us forward, though the minutes tick by more and more slowly...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Twistin' the Day Away | 2/22/1983 | See Source »

Princeton retaliated just two minutes into the second half on a freak play that caught Coogan flat-footed. In the confusion, surrounding a rebound of an earlier shot. Tiger striker. Steve Milke managed to slip a slow dribbler past "an immobile Coogan on the other side of the net Screened on the play, the Harvard goalie never saw the shot until...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tigers Nip Booters On Late OT Score | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

POLITICAL RALLIES AT HARVARD have run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Three winters ago, for example, a crowd 1000-strong braved the bitter cold to protest President Carter's reinstatement of draft registration. But, in the midst of a freak snow storm last spring, only about 100 people decried the Reagan Administration's cuts in financial aid to students...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: A Missed Opportunity | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

...days, when women's shapes were expected to be either pillows or posts, today's muscular woman might have been considered a freak. No more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 2, 1982 | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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