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That's about as well as we've played all year," said Cornell Coach lam Miller, who in four years has brought the Big Red to the forefront of Ivy hoop...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cornell Crushes Harvard's Ivy Hopes | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...skilled in disguises and schooled in police tactics, always spoke softly to terrified tellers. "If one can be polite when threatening someone else with a gun, Stander was," said one victim. Stander drove a yellow 1975 Porsche, rented three posh homes in suburban Johannesburg, and even when on the lam used to jog undetected amid police stakeouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hop Too Many | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...handofts were perfect," said an excited Moore. "We've been improving consistently Lam psyched for the Heptagonals as I think we'll give em all a good shot...

Author: By Johan Ahr, | Title: Big One at the Big Three | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Faraway Place | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...weird, edgy stuff, raucous and paranoid by turns. On one side it descends from the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, whose images of cannibal nature-all claw, tooth and bone-were a significant, though now unfashionable, part of the impact surrealism made on New York in the 1940s. On the other it comes out of a native, down-home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelations of Summertime | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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