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...Crimson, now 6-1 Ivy, also moved a step closer to capturing the Ancient Eight crown. It need only knock off Priceton Friday and Cornell a week later to become Ivy champions...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Turn Brown Black and Blue, 10-2, Saturday | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...confident we can knock Harvard off," Eli Captain Scott Webster says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Power (Station) Plays at Bright Center | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English temperament was forced to accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations"). Slogans of the police state are everywhere: DON'T SUSPECT A FRIEND--REPORT HIM. And scrawled on a tenement wall is the most obscene graffito of all: REALITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Ending for a Nightmare Brazil | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...biggest danger is not that the Green can ambush the Crimson, but rather that the lowly squad can knock Harvard out of the rhythm it's found of late...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Fusco Steals Limelight As Killer B's Keep Buzzing | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...only virtuoso acting comes from John Bottoms as the tragic villain De Flores. As an impoverished nobleman in the Vermandero household, De Flores is the instrument of Beatrice-Joanna's downfall, and he oozes evil. Fine-tuned to gruesome perfection by Bottoms (here of the shiny bald pate and knock-kneed posture), De Flores is a cross between Igor and Iago, first fawning on Beatrice-Joanna, then exacting fealty--and a whole lot more--for being...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: More of The Same Thing With ART's 'Changeling' | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

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