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Stand-out performances from both squads kept an appreciative crowd engrossed in the action, Six-foot one-inch Crimson center Elaine Holpuch had a good night, picking off rebounds and connecting for 17 points...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Bruins Beat Out Women Cagers, 67-61; Poor Foul Shooting Proves the Key | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...guerrillas suffer from other severe disadvantages. There is little or no coordination between different, sometimes rival groups. Their mobility is hampered by the ten-inch snow that covers the mountain passes. In some of the craggy heights of Kunar province, for example, the insurgents are said to be near starvation because food can be carried to them only on foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Props for Moscow's Puppet | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Once again, failure to capitalize on scoring opportunities highlighted the icewomen's downfall. "So many times, the puck would hit the post or miss the net by a quarter of an inch when the goalie was on the other side," co-captain Firkins Reed said yesterday. "It never seemed to hit the post and bounce...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Tigers Trounce Icewomen In Harvard's Sixth Loss | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Ashby has coaxed terrific performances from Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. These dots are tiny in contrast to those on the "filler" reel before Electric; they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over the top of the frame. They would stay if they showed more colored dots. To watch, to watch...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Against Culture Shlock | 1/4/1980 | See Source »

...Hampshire, the countrified city man has thrown a day's accumulation of junk mail and the sports section of the Boston Globe, fine sources of energy, into his antique Glenwood woodburning cookstove, along with some dry birch kindling and some twelve-inch splits of coarse grained red oak. He has watched the ancient oven thermometer, as reliable as the day it was made 80 years ago, climb to 425° F. That's a little high. Fiddle with the damper. Now pop in three bread pans full of cracked-wheat dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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