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...muggy Tuesday evening, and in the crowded gymnasium of a suburban Connecticut high school 60 miles from Manhattan, Reaganomics has come home to roost. Welcome to Weston's annual town meeting, a 200-year-old form of democratic self-rule that once was as common in New England as the American elm, and now is becoming increasingly rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Cutting to the Bone | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...seems good-naturedly inclined to dismiss this manifest lunacy as an extreme example of the illogical, though often charming, behavior of the weaker sex. Soon, however, he is spotted by a woman, and she incites her cronies to violent retaliation against male sexual oppression, embodied in Snaporaz. Through a gymnasium bursting with women lifting weights and practicing testicle kicks he rushes, down into the fiery furnace below...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

Halfway up the narrow road toward the campus we finally figured out where we were, and a little of our excitement returned. This was, after all, practically a homecoming for us; we had relived the days in the red-brick dormitories and grey-concrete gymnasium, had dissected relationships between class album pictures, and had witnessed over and over again the horror of missing last-second free throws again archrival Middlesex...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Yes Indeed, Quite Different | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Fleming (34) Leads Crimson To 78-75 Thriller Over Yale | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

...teams competing, Harvard could muster only a 13th-place finish before capacity crowds at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium...

Author: By Sam Soutter and G. ROBERT Strauss, S | Title: Wrestlers Falter at Eastern Tourney | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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