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...today is February 1, and the season is starting again. Over the last four years, Harvard has racked up a .631 average in games played in February and March. And if that weren't enough to lift Crimson spirits. ECAC cellar-dweller Dartmouth limps into Bright Center tonight at 7:30. At 2-10 in the ECAC and 2-15 overall, the Big Green has fared worse all year than Harvard has in January...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Auld Lang Syne | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

They may or may not help against gales fully capable of holding ski-lift chairs out parallel to the ground, like wash on a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Red Carpet | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...managing a ski area in order to support his burgeoning family, which numbers nine children. The Mahre kids were customarily dressed from the lost-and-found at the White Pass lodge, but the scenery was rich. Although school was an hour and a half away, the ski lift was just outside the door. "We finished our homework on the bus," Phil says, "and were off skiing and hiking as soon as we got home. We've spent the major part of our lives in the snow." By the age of nine, the twins were the joint terrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Success Is All in the Family | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

They do a special one-handed lift with Kitty spinning prone, and in Yugoslavia they may attempt a quadruple throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This One Figures To Be on Ice: Scott Hamilton | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...handle on all this? Leery as one may be of events that claim to be the hundred greatest somethings, they have their uses as introductions. One should start at the top and work down. The valleys of American painting are so marshy that it is better to lift one's eyes to the peaks. Last fall an exhibition that does just this opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it was besieged by Tut-size crowds; it can now be seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and will go to Paris in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manifest Destiny in Paint | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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