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...Crimson stretched their lead to 16-10 after three quarters and then shifted into a stall offense and a stonewall defense for the final quarter, allowing the Engineers only one goal on a Hail Mary toss from half a pool length away with only two seconds left to play...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Jen Gahan Turns It On For Aquawomen | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...Hudlin bros hail from East St. Louis, Ill., where they were nurtured, says Reginald, "in a matrix of black folk culture. Brother Joe May, a famous gospel singer, lived two doors down on one side, and Ike and Tina Turner lived two doors down the other side. It was sort of heaven and hell, equidistant." + The Hudlins emigrated to two matrices of official culture -- Warrington went to Yale, Reginald to Harvard -- but as filmmakers they wanted to return home. "When we went to parties, this funny stuff would happen," Reginald says. "I promised my friends that one day I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing The Bright Thing | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Most of Harvard's players were wary of the Friars, who hail from a large recruiting school with a lot more depth. Harvard was skating with two lines and three defenders, while the Friars had three lines and three defensive pairs...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Icewomen Led by 'The Sniper', or Was it 'Das Hammer?' | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

...face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living room. Then she began reciting the Hail Mary. "God bless Nicaragua," she concluded, her voice choked with emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Revolution: The Sandinistas | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...needs no lofty comparisons to justify the media klieg lights trained on it. For the future, aficionados should keep an eye on Douglas, the new champion on the bloc. Just because a new face has replaced the old and interminable domination has ended doesn't mean we should hail the arrival of a boxing Era of Equity. Buster Douglas is champ, but the world is not necessarily a better place for his victory. Lots of things could happen from here, and many of them are rather forbidding prospects...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Age of the Unexpected | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

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