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...driving force behind the batswomen's success has been the excellent pitchin of Gerri Rubin (4-1, 2.97 ERA) and Janet Dickerman (1-1, 3.06). The most pleasant surprise, however, has been the offensive production...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: They're a Hit | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

...show where humor fits in. It's not a yuk a minute. It's not a bunch of jokes. Humor forces you to think about every point you're going to make during a speech. All it does is reinforce traditional practices but in a more pleasant, fun kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Baby yuppies go on the road: the week's oddest cross-pollination of genres. In this teenpic travelogue, Gib (John Cusack) and Alison (Daphne Zuniga) are only college freshmen, and already they're lost in America. Gib, a quick, pleasant non-hunk, attends an Eastern school, but someone has lined up a "sure thing" for him in California. It is the film's unlikely premise that this bundle of lissome lubriciousness (Nicollette Sheridan), whom Gib has never met, is his for the asking; he need only go west to strike gold. He will do so in the reluctant company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles was not at all what you might expect: "Everyone we met there was very down-to- earth, very reasonable, very real." Just regular folks like the rest of her grownup friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Today and tomorrow, the Crimson finishes what shapes up as another pleasant formality competing in the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) Championships...

Author: By Brian Mccarthy, | Title: Racquetmen Travel to West Point to Compete for National Six-Man Title | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

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