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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin Jernigan and Joe Dowling both won handily at five and six, while at seven, freshman Darius Padole fell to Princeton's Doug Crucksheak, 3-1. However, 3-0 victories for Jack Polsky and David Segal in the bottom spots sealed the Crimson victory...

Author: By Brian Mccarthy, | Title: Racquetmen Claim National Nine-Man Championship | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

FOOTNOTE: *Count 'em (in order of appearance): Andrew Marton, David Cronenberg, Richard Franklin, Landis, Colin Higgins, Daniel Petrie, Jonathan Kaufer, Mazursky, Paul Bartel, Don Siegel, Jim Henson, Jack Arnold, Amy Heckerling, Roger Vadim, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Demme, Carl Gottlieb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Kingdom of Chic and Sleaze into the Night | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Continent by storm, now holds London in thrall. Her act is indeed worth catching. For Fevvers, who stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, also boasts a pair of wings that, when spread, span 6 ft. She does not hurtle; she soars. Attracted by the publicity, an American journalist named Jack Walser thinks he may have found another subject for a series he is planning on "Great Humbugs of the World." He interviews the famed "Cockney Venus" in her dressing room after a performance. On the wall hangs a poster of the aerialiste drawn, as the subject coarsely confides, by "some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Cooper's and Lucy's fondest hope is to reunite Jack and Kitty, once the Astaire and Rogers of their set. In keeping with the deflected dreams of the rest of the crowd, Kitty has been married three times and has become a prematurely old, discreetly tipsy Florida matriarch. Jack, who wed the girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations the Snow Ball | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...where's the tension, the plot? You may well ask. What there is of a plot consists primarily of a so-called internal conflict: Jack Lemmon torn between the desire to save his own skin and that of a seminary student and would-be priest. Mark Dolson, (Zeljko Ivanek) from the blind prejudices of the cranky and overwright Monsignor Burke (Charles Durning), the head of the seminary and of a true cardboard villain worthy of a ten-gallon hat and a black cowboy suit...

Author: By Yoo-sun Lee, | Title: The Fast Track... ...and the Beaten Track | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

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