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...behind the spectacle of lurid testimony and legal gymnastics several disturbing issues have arisen which have since been eclipsed by the dicier reports of courtroom confrontation. The current lull in the action affords an opportunity for review...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Behind the Hype | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

...ruse to lull us while the Kremlin prepared a geopolitical offensive? Or were the Soviets sobered by Nixon's firmness into settling for restraint? Did they seek detente only as a tactical maneuver? Or was there a serious possibility for a long period of stability in U.S.-Soviet relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNTING WITH BREZHNEV | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Against Princeton, a day earlier., McLaughlin had bellowed at his troops to step lively, fearing that the famed slow-motion Tiger offense would once again lull a determined Harvard squad into submission...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Slips Past Princeton; Falls to Quakers | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after her napkin. Garo Tokat loses a battle with his artichoke, which rockets off the plate and onto his lap. Tiffany Field, her ivory dress askew, is so absorbed in her food that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Crusader for Couth | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Harvard's relations with the tenants it still has were tense through the spring and summer but seemed to quiet down this fall. Michael Turk, an officer of the Harvard Tenants Union, said much of the lull was due to tenant participation in the city council campaign...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Catching Up With Cambridge | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

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