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...alert cagers lunged, jumped, and blocked for 26 steals and 47 rebounds, but undermined their carefully executed set-ups and fast breaks with haphazard shooting...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Cagers Trounce Barnard Lions, 74-29 | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...baby will impose some new demands on the haphazard, casual Gummer household; Meryl's recorded mes sage on her phone-answering machine sounds more laid back than most new parents are allowed to be: "Hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...cryptic, emotionally loaded economy of poetry, with all its symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost like plowing through about 400 pages of poetry, too-as difficult and rewarding. Gordimer's structure demands ingenuity and patience. It's choppy--long descriptions interspersed with telegraphic bits of interior monologue and haphazard conversation. She switches perspectives to let Rosa explain how she sees herself and how she believes others see her. The reader has to fit it all together, compose a life out of these poetic fragments...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Marching Away from Pretoria | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Ginn said the foul-up is "the worst thing I've ever seen. It's an absolute disaster." Students taking the test, Ginn said, were faced with the extra burden of anxiety from ETS's late and haphazard process. "It's a terrible inconvenience. I was really unhappy about it, but people will be able to get to the test," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Won't Need Tickets For LSAT | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...poses a nightmare for the people whose job that's always been. Audiences are going to want to hear local artists whether they get recording contracts or not. Record companies don't have the time or the discernment to choose among the groups; their efforts to date have been haphazard at best...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

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