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...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Victory For the Middle | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...ruffle the seemingly unflappable Jero. Adams plays it just right: the piercing shrill of her voice could cause inner-ear disturbance and she cuts a very intimidating figure without descending to the level of parody. Even better is Marlon Riggs as Chume, who rants and raves hysterically with near-perfect comic timing...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: A Sharp-Tongued Savior | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

UMass took a brief lead when Harvard's Chris Kimball (167 lbs.) lost his first varsity start, 4-3, on a takedown at the final buzzer. But Crimson grappler Sal D'agostino (177 lbs.) ran his near-perfect record to 12-1 with his ninth pin of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Stuns Harvard Matmen, 21-17 | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

Coach Mark Driscoll, commenting afterwards on his team's near-perfect season, said his players "hustled, and what more can a coach ask for?" Driscoll predicted that one or two of this year's J.V. players will start on next year's varsity squad...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Junior Varsity Batmen Complete Winning Season | 5/7/1976 | See Source »

...body of the movie with latent violence, he more than compensates for it in the final shootout--a rapid, graphic sequence of knives, bullets and blood, followed by a perversely loving, achingly detailed pan over the scene of the massacre. In this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero and his audience; like Travis, we have been aching for this release, and now that it has been granted, we're left cold, drained, and a bit removed from ourselves--like the denizens who haunt the all-night Bellmore Cafeteria...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Burnt Out at the Bellmore | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

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