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...really rough game," said Dujmovic, who speaks from experience, having broken her finger in the heat of Sunday's battle. "They're very rough and dirty--they do some things just for self-confidence. It gets people intimidated...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Aquawomen Drop OT Heartbreaker | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Meringoff--who has struggled with injuries for the past year--demonstrated his ability to remain mentally focused after a rough start, taking the match...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: M. Tennis Tops Brown | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

Bullock's character, Lucy, is the typical diamond-in-the-rough who has no family or social life, and yet is delightfully sweet and beautiful. Peter is the handsome lawyer who appears to be Mr. Right, but turns out to be petty and callous. Jack is the sensitive, tough guy who really wants to be an artist and turns out to be Lucy's peasant-savior...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: 'Sleeping' Won't While Away Your Saturday Night | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...last weekend's Ivy League Championships, the Harvard men's golf team overcame a rough first round by rebounding to a second-place tie with Dartmouth. Princeton took first in the two-day tournament...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: M. Golf Finishes Second at Ivy Tourney | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

...Glasshouse Mountains, 1958; forms are pressed into a flat dense surface (stamped there, you feel, as by a Chinese seal), but the space also folds in and out, shallow and buckling, like a screen. Sometimes the brushstrokes are languid and creamy, but they are interspersed with a stuttering, rough calligraphy that might have been drawn with a twig. The broken grid half-conceals figures and friezes remembered from China, India and Bali, mixed with recollections of marketplaces, rituals and washing days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PECULIAR BUT GRAND | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

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