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...jinx," captain Brad Konik said...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Voodoo | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

...game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross-out but inoffensive, since it's rooted in whimsy, not malice. Smith finesses the sophomore jinx with sophomoric high jinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...choices, he can guarantee "threeout of four times" that they will get their topchoice. As his roommate recalls, "He claimed tohave dreams about the houses...When he claimedthat he knew with absolute certainty our lotterynumber, we called him on it. He said he wouldn'ttell us because it would jinx us, so he put thenumber he dreamt into a sealed envelope and we allsigned across the top. We did get into Eliot, buthe was wrong by about 300 numbers...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: harvardian superstitions | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Thanks, Tripp Just because the Crimson can't always get out of Brown with an overtime win, can't always break out of the Yale Whale Jinx with a 12-1 drubbing, doesn't mean Harvard has forgotten...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Labor Pains | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

...wouldn't want to jinx the team now, would...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Captains Courageous: Coughlin Leads to Success | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

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