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This project together with his involvement in lighting for the upcoming Loeb Ex show, Six Characters in Search of an Author should keep him from feeling the letdown he expects when his first Harvard produced play closes. "It's a let down that a play can just disappear I know it won't be the old chestnut type of play that will make people say Let's do Common Knowledge again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observation Post | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

Almost all the Crimson booters agreed this game was not a letdown after Saturday's 14-0 whitewashing of the Penn Quakers. "There was no letdown. Those were two entirely different games," said Rowning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Booters Drop Contest at Keene | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...shutout of the young Crimson team--the second in four games--came despite the dominating play of the ever-improving offense. But squandered shots and missed opportunities kept the Cantabs locked in a scoreless tie as regulation time expired. Only a Harvard defensive letdown with just 1:50 left in overtime--which resulted in a Northeastern goal--kept the game from entering a second overtime and kept the Crimson from a possible scoring shot...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Song Remains the Same: Scoring Plagues Crimson in 1-0 Loss | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

ANYTHING with as much publicity and general puff power as the Star Wars saga has received is just building up to a grand letdown. Those of us who were 13 when the original Star Wars came out immediately fell in love with it, dragging parents and friends to see it for the fifth and sixth times. The special effects were then amazingly original. We plastered our walls with Star Wars posters, traded Star Wars cards, and bought the famous Star Wars theme on vinyl. When we became sophisticated 16-year-olds in time for the second installment. The Empire Strikes...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Third Time Pays for All | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...cocaine merely produced a false sense of personal supremacy, and that was that, it would be less menacing. But the "crash" from coke, the letdown when the drug wears off and heady illusions disappear, is grim. To ward off melancholy and the jitters after the supply runs out, many users get drunk or take sedatives like Quaaludes. Or worse. "The drug that works best to cut the crash," says

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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