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However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...Harvard women's hockey team gave Bowdoin a demonstration of the adage, "the best defense is a good offense," as the Crimson put the freeze on the Polar Bears, 9-0, Saturday afternoon in Brunswick...
...left New York's Museum of Modern Art Sept. 30; and what could MOMA do for an encore? Very sensibly, it has gone to the other end of the scale, returning to normal institutional life with a retrospective of an artist so unlike Picasso as to be his polar opposite: the American Joseph Cornell. Cornell died in 1972, at 69, but his association with the museum went back a long way (he was one of the few Americans included in MOMA'S introductory show of Dada and surrealism in 1936) and he has now been commemorated with full...
...Crimson eleven got some early returns of their own--four goals in the first 30 minutes, to be exact--on the way to an easy 5-1 win over the Polar Bears...
...second binge looked like a mirror image of the first, but just substitute the name Richard Berkman for Smith. A hard cross pass to Ayrault in almost the exact same position made it easy, and Polar Bear goaltender Keith Brown just watched the ball fly into the net at the far post...