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Mark Harris led Harvard with 13 points and the occasionally hot Tom Mannix followed with 12. Brown's Peter Moss led all scorers with...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Fall to Brown, 75-58, To Open Ivy League Season | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

Under the live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, a small band of nine-and ten-year-olds scramble among the tombstones with the quick casual grace of children playing games in their own familiar schoolyard. In the midst of death-to reverse the proverb-there is life. And what life. Life in yellow T shirts with maroon-letter messages like "Whereinthehell is Gainesville, Fla.?" Life, chewing sugarless grape gum with great juicy smacks. Life about as far from death as life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...across a coincidence much to his liking. Pointing to the first name on a marker, he commands Martha Hale: "Lay down, Martha. You're dead." The joke, Martha decides, is meant kindly, and she joins in the laughter that scatters over the scene like the sunbeams through the moss-fringed trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...nose, and Beckley overacts. Dewhurst is physically far more formidable than her assailant and so does not seem menaced. Durning, a mild fat man who was perfectly cast as the comic villain in The Muppet Movie, jiggles too much when he runs to be credible as an implacable avenger. Moss grew years ago on Director Fred Walton's spooky trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scream Scene | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...sleek yachts, which ranged in length from 27 ft. to 79 ft., as if they were balsa wood. Boats were capsized, righted and then swamped again, their crews suspended terrified in safety harnesses. Less fortunate yachtsmen were thrown about the decks or washed overboard. Said British Skipper Arthur Moss of Camargue: "Our steering [wheel], complete with a man attached, went soaring into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death in the South Irish Sea | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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