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The time since has been, in a somewhat fitting manner, mediocre. While last year's squad reached the Beanpot final, the results were not so pleasing, as Boston University revenged itself with an 8-2 laugher. The rest of the season had its similar ups and downs.

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Iceman Hope For Return To '89 Glory | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

This--although it was not, in fact, an attitude Yeats was entirely comfortable with, as I will show later--is, for the most part, the way our society likes its poets and humanists--preoccupied, in a state of near anaesthetized artistic bliss, with "pleasing young girles and old men," as...

Author: By Michael Blumenthal, | Title: No One Asked the Poets | 2/1/1991 | See Source »

The illustrations are the only commendable aspect of the book. Although the mixture of photographs and watercolors is pleasing, this is not sufficient to attract audiences of all ages. Nor is Loving the Earth a book which a serious environmentalist would buy for his children because of the simplicity of...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: Morality and Children: Two Views | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

With 6:28 remaining in the already-decidedgame, Miner picked up a loose ball and drove thebaseline for an apparent crowd-pleasing dunk. ButMiner found nothing but back rim, propelling theball well above the Long Beach Arena court.

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: A Perfect 2-0 and a Long Road To Go | 1/9/1991 | See Source »

This is more than understandable, given Connery's inherent stalwartness and the entrancing shyness and sexiness Pfeiffer commingles in her performance. But given glasnost and whatever undertakings the producers made in order to be able to shoot on location in the Soviet Union, one never feels that Barley and Katya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spy Stasis | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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