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Nebraska, 6-0 after a 55-0 romp over Kansas, gained 35 first-place votes and garnered 1046 points. The other two top votes went to Michigan, a distant No. 3 with 837 points, and Auburn, No. 5 behind Alabama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Ratings | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

...Freshmen Romp...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Redmen Down Ailing Harriers, 23-32 | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

From the Harvard viewpoint, Saturday's loss spoiled Joe Restic's debut, ended any Crimson hopes of an undefeated season, and ruined what should have been a pleasant opening day romp over a non-Ivy patsy. Injuries to Steve Harrison, Steve Golden, Eric Crone and others added to the Crimson's nightmares...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Victory Sweet After Drought | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...reading of the script's first three paragraphs. Union wages priced camera crews beyond his budget. Van Peebles, however, was ready for a hassle. He used nonunion crews, throwing the unions off the scent by letting it be thought that he intended to do a quickie porno romp, not worth their while. The first takes reduced his net worth to $13, but Soul Brother Bill Cosby answered an S O S with a $50,000 loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Power to the Peebles | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

...extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beach Balls | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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