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Rounding out the strokes for the Crimson was perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the the evening in the 200 breaststroke. Australian Scott Hoy, returning from a two-year layoff, set a meet record, completing the race...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Aquamen Destroy Brown in Home Opener | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

...working on squeazing [sic] out a very bizarre character here," Ehrman wrote. "He is detested by just about everyone, has never received any decent supervision and I am the one who gets to deal with it head on. Not a pleasant situation--I really feel sorry for the guy. But he is horrible...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Former Researcher Sues Harvard | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Verdict. He made a deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marine Life | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...letter to Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci read to the council, Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers said the 25-year-old tree had come under attack recently, adding "it is not a pleasant sight...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City to Save Lampy Tree | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Sticks to Your Shoes | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

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