Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beling squares off against seventh seed Nick Mygas of Navy in tomorrow's second semi-final bout of the heavyweight division. The winner of Beling's bout enters the finals and is assured of a spot in the NCAA championship in Maryland...
...obsessive. It produces not images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against...
Penn's Keven McDonald and Seton Hall's Nick Galis were named co-players of the week. Galis scored 20 points against Fordham and 25 points against scrappy Fairfield. McDonald, who plays against Harvard at the IAB Saturday night, scored 61 points, pulled in 15 rebounds, and shot 74 per cent from the floor in the Quakers' wins over Yale and Brown last week...
Howie (19), Nick (15), and Billy (16) are the Blessed, a punk band which played its first gig on Christmas Day in New York. Before their debut performance, they had practiced a total of three times, once with no microphone and a cardboard box as drums. None of the band members owns equipment, except Howie, the bassist, and Nick picked up a guitar for the first time three weeks before their debut. They maintain that they are the real punks. "These people are too old to call themselves punks. If you're going to sing about being a teenager...
While inspiring laughter, the production provokes serious reflection about Murray's valiant fight to resist society. Murray tells Sandy at one point during the play that he will only go as a tourist to reality. He wants to pass on this spirit to Nick, to ensure that he continues to pinpoint hypocrisy and absurdity. Nick should never become one of the "dead people," unthinking and unfeeling. Murray's struggle helps to remind us of the necessity to avoid joining the ranks of the dead. If one must compromise, it must be knowingly and reluctantly...