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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, the Penn game has virtually no interest or worth as far as the final Ivy standings are concerned. What the game will determine is just what kind of taste the Crimson will have in its mouth after the season ends. A win would provide a little sugar for the summer months. A loss will simply add more vinegar...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Crimson Will Close Season on Road; Cagers to Face Penn Tonight in Philly | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

...Russian threat remains. He claimed that the Chinese are even reconsidering their opposition to a strong U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia, and may come to view it as a force neutralizing Soviet might. "It's known," Alsop quipped, "as singing out of the other side of your mouth, because now you know on which side your bread is buttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New China Hand | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...insult he gets, and death is merely the final one.) The director, Clifford Williams, has added his own measure of slapstick humor in the staging. During the mass, for example, Henry cavalierly spills wine on somebody whenever he mentions the Pope's name, and then stuffs the abbot's mouth full of communion wafers, all of which recalls his historical feud with Pope Gregory over the issue of lay investiture. (If you're not well up on eleventh century history, you have to listen especially carefully, since the important facts all come out in quick one-liners near the beginning...

Author: By Wendy Lesser, | Title: Rex As Rex | 2/22/1973 | See Source »

...clitoris. Her face at first breaks into a contemptuous grin; then into a parody of an orgasmic expression. She joins her husband, lies on their bed, and lifts her nightgown to show her bleeding. Gleefully mocking his sexual desires, she takes blood on her fingers, smears it on her mouth, and licks it suggestively...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Tissue of Lies | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...ambitious Sullivan has sometimes been accused of "sleight-of-mouth" tricks-of changing his views to suit the policy of the moment. The reason is that he frequently argues his own views with passion but, when overruled, feels obligated to argue the official view with equal fervor. As ambassador, he pleaded eloquently against any allied invasion of Laos; back in Washington in early 1971, he argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Kissinger's Kissinger | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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