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...ideas into seductive images. He can pick up a cricket bat and find in its sprung wood a metaphor for the well-made play: "What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity of Henry's ardor, whether for the sweetest pop music from the mid-1960s (his own teen-age years) or for his one-gal-guy idealism (the play describes Annie as "very much like the woman whom Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Penn Coach Craig Littlepage, things have been a little tougher. They didn't just have a rebuilding job to do in Philadelphia. They had to knock down the old house and start from scratch--completely...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Uncle Frank Wants You | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

Opportunities Knock...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Take a Little Off the Top, 4-2 | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

That fact didn't used to bother the aquamen, though. Even as teams geared to knock off the powerful Harvard squad, the Crimson responded with clutch victories. In 10 years, Harvard has now dropped just five dual meets, including the last...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Still Sinking: Aquamen Drop Second Straight | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...from the original Super League group). Colgate, RPI, Vermont and Army. Each team will play each other squad twice in a season, and all games will be played on Friday and Saturdays. The championship tourney will still be played in Boston Garden B.U. won't be around anymore to knock off Harvard, though...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: One More Time | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

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