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...Harvard loser of only one of its last eight games, is the hot seam. Boston College (13-s ECAC), which qualified for the playoff's sometime around Christmas, has lost three straight, scoring only four goals...

Author: By Bruce Schoenweld, | Title: Big Night at Bright | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...reason? The playoffs. Harvard and Yale are tied along with Cornell, for first place in the ECAC's Ivy Division, and tonight's winner will have gone a long way toward eliminating the loser from the playoff chose. For Harvard a loss means there wins in four final games will be needed just to have a chance. For Yale, it means another loss and they...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Icemen to Face Yale Tonight In Key Ivy Division Contest | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...their separate ways, he said, but their three teen-age boys in a sense will get custody of the house. Under the plan, the ex-mates will move in and out each month. For the Churches, at least, the arrangement is perfect. Says Cheryl: "Nobody's a loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Split Decisions | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands of the movie-mad and the just plain curious will crowd into the Music Hall to watch this world-class shaman pull a rabbit-or a dog-out of his hat. "It's a brilliant move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...Martin is a lot more bearable hamming around a burlesque stage (as he does in one fantasy sequence) than he is playing the down-and-out loser spewing inarticulate cliches about the American dream. Likewise for Peters, who seems to feel obliged to say most of her lines (and especially winners like, "I am not very at ease with people...[long pause]...Men I mean") in a monotonous baby-doll voice uncannily reminscent of a T.V. commercial for an underarm deodorant called "Tickle." Both Martin and Peters approach their roles in a curiously stylized way, staring out of glazed eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Thirties | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

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