Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the 24 point victory margin can be explained with a quick look at shooting percentages. While Princeton shooters--most notably Steve Mills and Craig Robinson--sizzled the twines at a 29-47, 61.7 per cent clip, the Crimson took as many shots (48), but hit only a pitiful 37.5 per cent...
...Robinson then hit two quick medium range jumpers to put Princeton up by six with 1:41 to go. Mannix poured in one of his bullet-like 25 ft. jumpers to close the gap to 34-30, but sixth-man forward Neil Christel put a 10 foot jump shot off the glass to restore the Princeton lead...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen ∙ Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson ∙Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙Other People's Worlds, William Trevor
...last minute, the red light barely had a chance to blink. Before you could say "Jeff Robinson, Falcone, Falcone," the Lauries' Robinson knocked a goal at 19:22, Falcone scored an empty-netter at 19:28, unassisted, and then tallied his fourth with just 19 seconds left in the game, knocking a Burke cross out of the air and into...
...slack moments. Ruth occasionally meditates on a scene without sufficiently setting it. She sometimes meanders. But this first novel does much more than show promise; it brilliantly portrays the impermanence of all things, especially beauty and happiness, and the struggle to keep what can never be owned. Robinson, 37, who lives with her husband and two sons in Massachusetts, grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, before majoring in English at Brown and earning a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Though she says that Housekeeping is "totally not autobiographical," the novel's vivid landscapes betray the presence of an author...