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Taking advantage of the short reprieve, the Panthers closed out the quarter with two quick goals and then sustained the momentum through halftime and beyond to knock off three more, taking the lead for the first time early in the third quarter...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Stickmen Tip Adelphi, 15-12, | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Somehow I had hoped that the reams of feminist criticism of American literary sexism (see Andrea Dworkin's Woman Hating; see my article on Kerouac in the September 1978 Seventh Sister) would knock writers like Mailer off their pedestals, would make younger writers realize that they could criticize an author's male chauvinism while admiring his use of language. Perhaps this is too much to ask of Harvard, where, as we all know, the pugilist has a private little ring at 21 South Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexual Politics | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

...down, fully dressed except for shoes, and arranged the covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...cope on their own, or they went for help." Several years ago, Fenigstein started "Holocaust workshops"-group therapy that seems to benefit most of the survivors and survivors' children who attend. Children with enough inner strength do not copy their parents, he says. "When there's a knock on the door, which reminds parents of a traumatic experience in the war when the Nazis came, this child doesn't react with anxiety but in a more realistic way-he checks to see who's at the door." Adds Ruth Kukiela Bork, president of One Generation After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trauma Goes On | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Schilling is a compulsive and accomplished killer, but not a very tidy one. En route to Zurich he stops over in Paris to knock off the Jordanian Ambassador. There he makes the mistake of killing a CIA operative. A doughty, Swiss-based CIA man known only as Guthrie sets out to avenge his colleague. The task might be insuperable, save for the superable Marie-Christine Lemarchand, an elegant young Parisienne who had been the hit man's sometime mistress. She provides Guthrie with a psychological profile of the killer and some cryptic notes he has left in the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrorists Take Over the Thrillers | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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