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Rogers drove the right baseline with time running out, drew two defenders when he went up and shoveled off to Ackerman who appropriately laid it in to propel the game into overtime...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Shock Columbia in OT, 73-71 | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

Things have not gone quite as smoothly in Hanover, though. The Woodsmen, who last season cruised easily into the E.C.A.C. playoffs, are desperately looking for a finishing kick to propel them into the top eight by this season's end. The guys in green are currently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Face Dartmouth | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...World War II in Lina Wertmuller's hard-charging, shrilly-pitched black comedy. Giancarlo Giannini is sulphurously splendid as the small-time crook who finds the great world as much a slum as the Naples back streets where he was born. His energy-and the director's-propel one compulsively through the movie's several stomach-churning moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year's Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...discusses the "inner cheese of life." Just as self-consciousness leads Norma to make a joke out of the "energies of life," this whole book concerns Muldoon's discovery that the voice often masks the subject; action similarly disguises reality. Muldoon is aware that "unseen and mysterious forces" propel him. He recognizes that the Light--wisdom or maybe just balance--drawing him beyond the everyday world is as inevitable as the lure of the apple to Adam...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Alley-Catting, God Knows Where | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...time the House's creaky impeachment machinery swung into motion, and in fact, even as its first phase of public hearings ended in 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee had begun to outlive its usefulness. Dash acknowledges that the McCord, Dean and Butterfield testimony was all that was necessary to propel the Watergate investigation into a higher, more far-reaching stage...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: 'Bail to the Chief' | 11/16/1976 | See Source »

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