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...scoring category, sophomore forward David Kramer is the runaway leader for the Crimson. Kramer's 11 goals and two assists (24 points) put him 11 points ahead of the second-place pack...
...convincing. "A time bomb," he declared, "is planted in the middle of Argentine society." In a 30-minute television address last week, Alfonsin resorted to such dire imagery to convey a sense of emergency and justify a drastic new austerity program. To cure the country's economic ills -- runaway inflation of more than 100% so far this year, a foreign-debt burden of $55 billion and a current budget deficit of $5.6 billion -- the President offered a radical prescription: wage-price freezes, tax increases for middle- and upper-income earners and a currency devaluation of 11.8% to boost export sales...
...Cosby Show is a runaway No. 1 hit. The comedian' s first book, Fatherhood, set sales records. A second, Time Flies, has just been published, marking his 50th birthday. With commercials, concerts, movies and more, his fortunes keep soaring, and he remains firmly in control. Offstage and on, Bill Cosby gets laughs -- and results -- by doing things his way. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...decay aren't able to disturb your natural equilibrium, though, the train scenes will. Fricke places his camera on the front of an engine and the film accelerates as the train wends though tunnels and around curves and across mountain passes. There's no question you're on a runaway train...
Morrison's supple prose makes such desperation palpable. Beloved is full of vivid images, freshly rendered. Here is the runaway slave facing the Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...