Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first surprise for Commanding Officer Charles Taylor (Peter Friedman), a West Pointer, is to meet Captain Richard Davenport (Charles Brown), the black officer assigned by the Army to investigate Waters' murder. Almost inadvertently, he says to Davenport: "Being in charge does not look right on Negroes." Besides, the prime suspects are local stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan. What Deep South white man would testify before a black? Davenport is a seasoned skirmisher on the color line. He is adamant, but scrupulously fairminded...
...when B.C. hoopsters Jane Haubrich and Kerry Murphy each looped in a bucket with less than a minute to go--putting their team in the lead, 42-38--the Crimson did not have enough time to dump in two tying baskets. Freshman forward Wendy Joseph pocketed a two-pointer with nine seconds remaining, but Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder had depleted her allocated timeouts for the game, and the Eagles simply ran out the clock...
Reading your article on Artist Edwin Landseer [Nov. 16] reminded me of the story about his famous painting The Monarch of the Glen. As a guest of Queen Victoria, Landseer went deerstalking with a gillie from Balmoral. After following a five-pointer stag for over four hours, they had it trapped in a corrie. At that moment Landseer quickly laid down his gun, pulled out a pad and pencil, and started sketching. The proud animal became the famous "monarch...
...Benton. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of cowboys, Indians, bucking horses and stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...
After Douds' interception, Dunster-Mather held onto the ball for the entire third quarter and for much of the fourth quarter, keeping the ball from Quincy and waiting to get the six-pointer...