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Following a Carrabino defensive rebound and outlet pass to the sophomore point guard, Dixon held up the ball while the rest of the team ran down the floor. Six dribbles--two of which were between his legs--and two full pivots later, Dixon was in the middle of a crowded lane, apparently going to the basket...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Whip Manhattan; Offense Shines in 90-80 Win | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...redundancy of the daily routine of eat, go to class, study, sleep. "All you do at Wellesley is study--it's taken for granted that you'll be in the library every night and on Sundays," Trippe says. "I thought that the swim team would be an outlet for me, but even with them the big thing is to dress really fast in the locker rooms after meets so that we can get back to the libraries...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Malice in Wonderland | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...robot's basic function is not to look or behave like a human being but to do a human's work, and for that it needs mainly a guiding brain (the computer) and an arm with claws for fingers. The computer is simply plugged into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

THWARTED IN THE usual provinces of politics--elected office and organizations seeking to influence those who hold such office--the next generation of the Left will have to find some other outlet for its activism. They can't be lobbyists, for it does no good to lobby someone who keeps quoting from the Bible, someone who has no money to build a decent prison, someone who points to unreclaimed strip mines and calls them "unavoidable consequences of progress." They'll have to follow an impulse that has always existed within the American Left--direct community efforts to create non-governmental...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

BECAUSE IT IS the audience's and not the actors' job to analyze characters, actors as competent as Agutter, Benedict and Jordan face a frustrating task. Pinter withholds from them even conversation as an outlet for creative interpretation. The dialogue is slow and choppy, meant to give the audience information without letting word choice and phrasing reveal additional insight into the speakers. Characters rarely utter more than four words at a time, and there are precious few monologues. Benedict, Jordan and Agutter too often let the unexpected eye contact, the strained embrace, the angry removal of a tablecloth...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

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