Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The best part is the soaps. The soap opera Christmas season begins as soon as the World Series ends, and it proceeds in a hysterical fashion for three more months, milking the advertisers' good cheer for every last dime. Turn on a soap in the last quarter of the year...
And that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Television lives off the advertisers and advertisers live off the Christmas season. And since Christmas does not come during the "sweep" weeks--the times when the Nielsen ratings determine the prices for advertising time--the networks just let loose...
And during the first two periods of play it looked like those rusty gates might never open. Although the New Haven squad seemed to be spending more time picking themselves off the ice than skating on it, Harvard failed to capitalize on the Eli sloppiness.
"Our passing was way off," Crimson coach Rita Harder said. "We didn't really check until the last ten minutes of the game."
Thus the Crimson's inability to get off more than a handful of good shots. Despite some aggressive skating from freshmen wingers Alex Lightfoot and Vicki Palmer and an impressive performance from junior defenseman Julie Starr, Harvard could not hit the mark.