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After being stymied on its first three power-play opportunities by a rushing Cornell defense, Harvard went into an attacking pattern called the "umbrella" and converted two of the next three man-up chances...
...along. She knows she will die, just as thousands of people in her town and the surrounding countryside have already died after being infected with the AIDS virus. Townspeople first attributed the mysterious disease to witchcraft. Now they know that their lovemaking is to blame. They have seen the pattern of infection as it travels from husband to wife to lover. Fifty of Kyotera's leading businessmen are dead. The streets are filling with homeless orphans, the offspring of AIDS victims in outlying areas. Josephine, racked by fevers, chronic diarrhea, throat lesions and a painful itching rash that covers...
Kopit's play is almost a paradigm of the burgeoning genre of "Nuclear Lit." The brain-deadening pattern lack much variation, having been set in stone in Strangelove: introduce an outsider to what one journalist termed "the subterranean world of the bomb," then lead him or her step by step through the strategy and institutions of strategic nuclear...
...President's man. The press corps he viewed as the adversary, necessary but not to be embraced. He often closed his office door, gave nasty answers to nasty questions, got personal when his integrity was up for debate. The nonsmoking, nondrinking, nonswearing Speakes fitted no previous pattern. If 90% of the press corps took umbrage and cursed his unorthodoxy, 90% of the mail he got from the public (1,500 letters a month) approved his tough style. "I had to take a lot," he said last week, "so I gave back a lot. You cannot stand there with no backbone...
...sources, who demanded anonymity, said the carriers Kennedy and Nimitz and a Mediterranean Amphibious Ready group of roughly 1900 Marines were steaming on a "routing patrol pattern" in the southeastern Mediterranean, south of Cyprus and relatively close to Lebanon...