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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example is any lesson, converting a regular-season title into a post-season title is as about as easy as catching a shark in a sewer. Regular-season greatness does not always yield playoff punch...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Regular-Season Crown Made Only of Paper | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

SNOW'S ability to laugh at herself urges the rest of the audience to chuckle as well. If she messes up a punch line, or no one appears to like the joke she just told, she is able to continue with the grace and style of a first-class comedienne...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Snow Makes Sailors Come Ashore | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...execution lags behind expectation, the Divinity School's The Cocktail Party nonetheless packs its punch. It's an encouraging alternative to undergraduate theater. Give it a shot...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: High Spirits | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

...cold. They simply don't contain a high enough percentage of alcohol for today's serious partiers. Bottles of hard liquor are infinitely easier to transport, Vodka shots are much more efficient for intoxication purposes, wine is much more civilized for Harvard's intellectual atmosphere, and a good Everclear punch is much tastier than beer, allowing people to drink far more excessively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hard Liquor Is Quicker | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...Larry Holmes last week. Just as he always did while he was heavyweight champion, Holmes kept getting up when Mike Tyson kept knocking him down in the fourth round of their title fight in Atlantic City, N.J., though the third time down the referee made him stay. The final punch Holmes threw at 38, 28 months since he lost the title he had held for seven years, was a roundhouse right that got caught in the ring ropes, straightening him up perfectly for the right fist from Tyson that knocked him into oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To The Finish Someone eventually gets us | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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