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...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salazar's Marathon Ordeal | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Koch's trademark "How'm I doing?" springs from the mayor's lips like a reflex action, and the mayor attacks issues the same way Joan Rivers might attack a joke-"Can we talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How You Spell E-d K-O-C-h | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...batwomen were also fortunate on offense yesterday, scoring both their runs on errors by Jumbo fielders. Harvard capitalized on the first Tufts mishap in the second inning, when first baseman Joan Cunningham came home after Tufts' Kris Herman, covering on a bunt, threw the ball into the outfield after trying to get Cunningham at third...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Batwomen Survive Tufts; Victory Preserves Streak | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

Neighborhood residents have been satisfied with the dialogue between Harvard and the neighborhood, said Joan Lorentz, chairman of the Mid-Cambridge association...

Author: By Caiherine Schmidi and Thomas J. Winslow, S | Title: City, University Discuss Fogg Bridge | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

Walking into a Robert Bresson film can be like waking up on top of Mount Everest: the air is thin and chilly, no living thing disturbs the silence, and the view is spectacularly disconcerting. Bresson's bleak tales (Pickpocket, The Trial of Joan of Arc, Mouchette) make high-altitude demands. Even the most adventurous viewer is The theme of L'Argent, oxygen Bresson's 13th film in a 50-year career, is both simple and brutal: capitalism is a contagious disease, and the carrier is money. Bourgeois parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spring Collection from Paris | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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