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...brutal con men and amorous double-dealers. A segment called "Dark Phrases," featuring Janet League, telescopes a black wom an's experience, and in a cruel tale of love and blood lust called "A Nite With Beau Willie Brown," Trazana Beverley brings the audience to a culminating gasp of agony. An altogether excellent cast not only dances but delivers lines with a revivalist fervor that might have inspired Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: He Done Her Wrong | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

That really was the last gasp for the Crimson. In the rest of the overtime, Brown took complete control. Bensley, Bill Ohlson, John Meister, and Chris Gibson fired goals past Michelson for the 14-10 triumph...

Author: By David Clarke, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Laxmen Rally to Tie, But Bow in OT | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...upon by two men and almost raped. She found, to her shame, that she wanted to be violated, but her body would not permit it. She laughs, as if to dismiss this confession - and all it implies - then, out of control, starts to cry, then laugh again, then gasp through both at once. Soon she tries to kill herself. Tomas takes her to the hospital. There Jenny slips through a series of bleak dreams, fantasies of childhood where she is dressed as a princess in red, gliding, running through reveries of desertion, lovelessness, helplessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Over the Edge | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...freshman oarsman lay sprawled on the Newell boathouse floor. The ergometer (rowing machine) he had challenged to a five-minute bout had gallantly thrown him to the floor before relinquishing its dying gasp. Its life line, in the form of a broken cable, had been severed. The Erg was dead...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

Kevin McCluskey then hit two foul shots to close the margin, but the Classic's last gasp fell short by 12 points. Bergen finished with 17 points while Healey notched...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: UMass-Boston Outdistances Classics, 72-54; Bergen, Healy Amass 33 in Losing Effort | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

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