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...tables where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

Captain Nelia Worsley joined with freshmen Lauren Norton and Tania Huber at fall registration to enlist recruits. Each player bought her own skates and helmet, and with an anonymous $500 gift the team acquired gloves, pads and sticks. Bertagna, Harvard's assistant director of sports information and a former varsity goalie, volunteered to coach. Practices were scheduled three times a week at the dinner hour--sandwiched between varsity and intramural ice time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'I DIDN'T EVEN GET BREAKFAST' | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...takes his special brand of egomania over to professional wrestling. The time is the early '50s. when the sport was a TV staple and a man with an arresting gimmick could become a star. Andy flops as a clean-cut hero and a rough-cut villain (in Nazi helmet and Hitler mustache), then finally reaches apotheosis as a Gorgeous George type - golden curls, campy cape, mincing manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Show-Off | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Franco Scalamandre, playing with a broken nose last night, had to wear a protective screen attached to his helmet during the game. The lanky defenseman looked like a bird feeder on skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huskies Leash Icemen, 14-5 | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

...probably genetically knows more about pro athletes than Ritchie. Kristofferson is woefully in need of direction; his lines are often on the order of "Sounds good, B.J.," delivered in his nasal "Me and Bobby McGee" tones. Kristofferson played college football at Pomona in California, too often without his helmet, as somebody said of another famous American actor, and that must have been why he was cast...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Sounds Good, B.J. | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

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