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...back had plagued the Burlington native all night and prevented him from playing his usual game. But with less than a minute left in regulation, Fusco took the puck and beat Golden Knight goalie Jamie Falle to send Harvard into the finals the following night and secure the Crimson's berth in the NCAA Tournament...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Tabbed for the Top | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...glance George is embarrassingly and pathetically a dork. He sort of lopes along, peering timidly at girls and unconsciously pushing back his recalcitrant, oily locks. But Glover rescues George from unredeemable wimpiness by infusing his soul with a little bit of the poet, and a little bit of the knight in shining armor. He convinces us that George, for all his bumbling, might win Lorraine...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Let's Do the Timewarp Again | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...oily turn by Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury as a teenager in an early role. Bergman is haunting as a naive young maid who is duped by primo sleazebag Boyer, who wants to steal her family jewels. The ending is so trite and stylized that one half expects a knight in shining armor to stride up the stairs of Bergman's London townhouse. But this is mere Kabuki '40s style, so just lap up Bergman, who hits some real highs during her (and our) two-hour angst-holiday in hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based detergent and disposable-diaper king, and Pfizer, a New York pharmaceutical firm, rode to the rescue with identical $69-a-share offers. P & G reportedly won the deal because its lawyers got the paperwork done faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jousting for the Top Brands | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Until Strawberry's clout, the closest either team had come to scoring was during the Met seventh, when a Ray Knight single and a Rafael Santana double left men at second and third with one out. Darling missed a suicide squeeze bunt and pinch-runner Howard Johnson was tagged out at home. Darling popped up to end the inning...

Author: By E.a. Boone, | Title: Straw's Stroke in 11th Wrecks Redbirds, 1-0 | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

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