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...Rolando Lamb sank a 20-foot jump shot at the buzzer to lift Virginia Commonwealth to a 70-69 victory over Northeastern in the first round of the East Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament last night at East Rutherford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Roundup | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

With two seconds remaining at the Brendan Byrne Arena. Lamb took at inbounds pass from Michael Brown and sank a shot from just outside the foul line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Roundup | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...reminded of S.J. Perelman, who wrote: "Outside of a spring lamb trotting into a slaughterhouse, there is nothing in the animal kingdom as innocent and foredoomed as the new purchaser of a country place. The moment he scratches his signature on the deed, it is open season and no limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Eighty spirited voices rose above the organ, singing: "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power/ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?" But before the worshipers had finished the first hymn, they heard a series of dull thuds. Suddenly, an elder of the church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Blasphemy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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