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...dogs romp ahead, Cheever acknowledges that he is more accessible, more willing to appear in public than in the past: "I began getting out more when I realized that I'm not only dependent on readers, I rely on their response." He was especially pleased by the mail he received after Falconer was published last year. "A book about a homicidal, fratricidal drug addict," he says, shaking his head. "I got perhaps two crank letters. The rest were thoughtful comments from concerned, well-informed men and women...
Columbia's Big Blue Machine racked up 505 total yards to a measly 134 for Lafayette en route to a 21-0 romp at New York's Baker Field. It was the first time the Lions had won their first two games (remember last week?) since 1951 (remember Bill Swiacki...
Figarocontinues to romp nightly at the Loeb. As the ads proclaim, "it's not the opera." Instead, this production is a spliced-together version of "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," two eighteenth-century French comedies. Both were written by Beaumarchais, who was somewhat of a shady character; in addition to play-writing, he smuggled French guns to American revolutionaries. "The Marriage" was quite daring for its time, since it contained a speech by the servant Figaro that lamented and raged against the privileges of the nobility--some say it hastened the onset of the French Revolution...
Todd Lundy--serving up nothing but softballs because of a pulled muscle in his side--teamed with Andy Chaikovsky to turn the number one doubles match into a 6-4, 6-2 rout, while Don Pompan and Greg Kirsch matched that feat with a 3-and-1 romp at third doubles...
...ahem, for the bad. Cornell may be the best team in any college sport this season, and the Big Red machine just set the NCAA record for consecutive wins (34) with a 16-11 romp Saturday over Johns Hopkins, the number-two squad in the nation. The Ithacans seized the NCAA crown in '76 and '77 and they return five (count 'em, five) All-Americans from last year's championship squad...