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Fleming had the power to spark the Crimson with power baskets and crowd-pleasing blocks, momentum switchers necessary for a team to fight back against a rallying opponent. Now the burden of court leadership falls on the shoulders of Co-Captain Calvin Dixon and junior front-counters Joe Carrabino and...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers to Battle Chinese | 11/23/1982 | See Source »

This year's (or should one say this month's?) Alfred Hitchcock pastiche is of the sober rather than the raffish variety. It is intended not as a knockoff but as an hommage (the French pronunciation on that word, if you please) to the Old Master's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hitchhiking the Mean Streets | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Even when Harvard opened its season in-auspiciously, losing to Northeastern. Regan maintained his characteristic optimism. "It's very pleasing to have someone as captain who's not going to throw the towel in, "Haggarty points out. The Crimson went on to win its next four meets, including an unexpected...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Andy Regan | 11/18/1982 | See Source »

IT'S INCREDIBLE how many things could have gone wrong with Working and didn't. Incredible that two and a half hours of taken-front-life monologues about the laborer's lot wouldn't drag, that Harvard students could stand up in front of their friends and roommates and deliver...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: It Works | 10/26/1982 | See Source »

Billy Joel, in his ascent to unrivaled commercial success, never made us dance. In fact, as he carved out his comfy pop niche, he never made us do or feel much of anything. But on Piano Man, The Stranger and 52nd Street he described just enough familiar American experiences with...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Musical Obituary | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

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