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...than its ambitions. Chita Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Coach Joe Bernal explained, "I'd rather establish that fact in the pool, and that's exactly what we did today." Indeed, the meet saw the Crimson winning the crucial events in order to build leads and dispel any thoughts of a Lion comeback...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Aquamen Top Lions; Remain East's Best | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...five minutes, Harvard lost its composure with a flurry of turnovers and series of poorly chosen just plain bad--shots. That, coupled with the timely pinpoint outside shooting of Lion guard Mark Settles and forward Mark Lay (18 and 11 points on the night respectively), ignited a Columbia rally which gobbled up a six point Harvard cushion and turned it into a 63-62 Columbia lead with 4.04 remaining...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Win On the Road -- Finally | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

Gregg, McKay, Knight & McKay, a pension boutique based in Avon, Conn., earned about 38% last year on $244 mil lion invested in fledgling firms, many of them high-technology ventures. Says Roy McKay, 40, one of the partners: "We are trying to be investors rather than trad ers. That's how the great families made money in the past. There's an electronic revolution going on, and it's generating vast opportunities for the creation of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Billion-Dollar Boys | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...Last Lion by William Manchester. One award-winning biographer's highly charged, worshipful narrative of Winston Spencer Churchill's spectacular rise as soldier, author and politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: THE BEST OF 1983: Books | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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