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...number two slot Harvard's John Stubbs used agility and keen shot anticipation to out-finesse his opponents...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Racquetmen Destroy Big Green, Register a Flawless 9-0 Win | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...basis of Peter Weir's new film The Last Wave, a rather stodgy thriller involving Aborigines, magic, secret underground cities, and Mother Nature at her most perverse. This is Weir's fourth film, the first to be released in this country, and in it he shows a keen sense of how to create suspense, and an unnerving inability to deliver. His first talent makes Weir one of the more innovative filmmakers around, with a vivid imagination and the ability to infuse the most commonplace events with an eerie sense of the unknown. His second talent, however, consistently undoes...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Carril's keen assessment of the Princeton troubles disintegrates into a general condemnation of the situation. When asked what his line-up was missing, Carril calmly said, "Good players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Simply A Question Of Style | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...would not be too keen on teaching Nat Sci 110 again without another computer," William H. Bossert '59, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Computing Facilities May Be Expanded | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street is watching the confrontation with keen interest: a Times victory could embolden other publishers to try curbing the labor anarchy that has racked Britain's 15 national newspapers for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Showdown on Fleet Street | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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