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...incredible Nordic showing was backed up by the solid Alpine skiing of Jonna Gaberman (seventh in slalom, ninth in giant slalom) and Missy Dubroff (eighth, tenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Powder Weekend Competition Men First, Women Second at Tourney | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...boosted by a pair of strong slalom performances from P.A. Weiner, edged MIT, 326-322, while the women--sparked by an incredible Nordic team--fell just one point short of Colby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Powder Weekend Competition Men First, Women Second at Tourney | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...women's Nordic skiers accomplished the unheard-of, recording 199 of a possible 200 points while placing finishers in three of the top four positions. Manya Deehr, Joy Clendenning and Kirsten Berggren finished first, second and fourth respectively for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Powder Weekend Competition Men First, Women Second at Tourney | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...misplaced Mormon, an abandoned rabbi, an African dictator, a welfare mother in double- digit pregnancies, a sniper, a man assembling a Chevy Nova in his living room, a 400-lb. dope dealer with an M.B.A., a family of Cambodians trying to farm their floorboards, mythic creatures known as the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat, and two ex-dancers who sell Tupperware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off the Wall the Building by Thomas Glynn | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...book is a muscle-bound liberal who wants to save the property. He fails. Too many tenants prefer their own chaos to someone else's order, in this case the Gorilla Management Co.'s. Glynn concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, and none too soon. By the time the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat wrestle for the soul of the building, the author's inspired riffs on urban rot have been overworked as allegory. But not before a strong and exuberant talent has shown his stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off the Wall the Building by Thomas Glynn | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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