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Lazor's absence from the spotlight is understandable: He has neither the pin-point arm of Fiedler nor the improvisational athleticism of Giardi. He is a three-step dropback passer, pure and simple...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gridders Looking To Dispel Second Half 'Myth' Today | 10/10/1992 | See Source »

Golden boy. 1988 Olympics gold medal winner intwo-man kayak. Gap pin up model. Porcellian club.Heart throb of the Charles. Started in class of1992--still trying to graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Cultural Elite | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...score points, each player makes his way through a six-wicket (hoop) course twice with the possibility of scoring 13 points--one per wicket and one extra point for hitting a central pin...

Author: By Alice S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Croquet Wins National Title | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

...Hollywood tribute to the breakdown of the American family is its hilarity. Woody Allen knows how to turn angst into comedy. Given Allen's domestic situation, there are many scenes that produce laughs from lines that might not otherwise have been memorable. But Woody Allen is too tricky to pin down, and it's never clear that what seems like a personal revelation really...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hold On to Your Seats: Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives Makes For Nauseous Laughter | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

Long before the invention of the tape recorder, Mitchell managed to catch cadences of speech and pin down quirks of personality. A bearded lady refuses to let the doctors examine her: "When they get their hands on a monsterosity the medical profession don't know when to stop." A man who calls himself a king of the Gypsies is asked his age: "Between forty-five and seventy-five . . . My hair's been white for years and years, and I got seventeen grandchildren, and I bet I'm an old, old man." (His story was so enchanting that a Broadway musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collector Of Lost Souls | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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