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Like squires crowding around a knight before a joust, the people huddle around the guy pressing the Fire button. The cynics stand back, sipping their icy Cokes like isolated exjousters grinning in their ale. All stare at the machines, not at each other. The glare stifles even the noisy. These would-be heroes can forge only a cold camaraderie as they pursue their isolated quests. Searches for ever more tenuous shadow. People enter an arcade together. Inside, they separate...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Confident Impotence | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

...other end of the field, netminder Janet Judge and the Harvard backline did a superb job of containing Eagle speedsters Ann Porell and Cathy Murphy. Judge, who had to block the blinding glare as well as B.C. bullets, punched two potential Eagle tallies out of the crease while pouncing on six more en route to her sixth shutout of the season...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Booters Blank Eagles To Meet UMass in Easterns | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson attack proved it didn't need the glare at its back to connect as Carrillo took a defense-splitting Jenny Rayport feed and beat McCarthy with the game's final tally at 14:15 of the second half...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Booters Blank Eagles To Meet UMass in Easterns | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...movie, alas, lacks sustained ability to haunt. Thomas provides the necessary disembodied footsteps and floor creaks, but the rest is silence. The featured ghost--not just an amorphous white cloud, but a nattily dressed gentleman named Marion--offers nothing more threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Being and Nothingness | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

Bathed in the bright glare of television lights, he squirms nervously, kneading his hands together tightly, his knuckles whitening. Dworak, a second-term state senator from Nebraska who is considering a run for Governor, manages credible and even convincing answers to probing questions on water policy, a prime concern to Nebraska farmers. But then comes a change-up from his questioner. "What's your favorite color?" Dworak starts to stammer a confused response and finally breaks up in laughter on-camera. "Remember," admonishes the unamused interviewer, "be ready for anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Des Moines: Cram Course for Pols | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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