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...HAVEN Acting head coach Peter Lansbury termed it "Liaslern goon water polo," and it certainly wasn't pretty to watch, but Harvard sank its Yale does-12-6 yesterday...
...wouldn't be any enforcement," says John Svahn, who was recently promoted from HHS Under Secretary to Assistant to the President for Policy Development. The department hopes to come to a final judgment in the next few weeks. If the hotline and what some doctors deride as investigative "goon squads" are not eliminated, the medical organizations have threatened to take the Reagan Administration to court again. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and Sheila...
...thinks of himself as an actor, but late in his career he is persuaded to play Professor Kingsfield, the law-school curmudgeon, in the film The Paper Chase and then in a subsequent TV series. At the Academy Awards the following year he waits "with clenched buttocks for some goon lady to open an envelope." The prize propels him into yet another subcareer in his 70s, acting in films and commercials...
...teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green, an illiterate convict lionized by radical chic for his vengeful poetry ("Cill My Lanlord") and moving with the mean swagger of a ghetto goon pulling off his toughest scam. A few commercials later, he is Tyrone's spiritual cousin, Film Critic Raheem Abdul Muhammad, fashioning a variation on local-news patter-"Angry Talk"-as he accuses Jerry Falwell's followers of having a sneaking fondness for dirty movies ("The next time...
During the past 24 years, Miller has successfully met the diallenges of acting, directing and writing for the stage in such productions as "King Lear" and "The Goon Show." More recently, the 48 year-old London resident wrote and hosted the highly acclaimed BBC television series. "The Body in Question," which also aired...