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...coach, George Seifert, so much that he was allowed to return a kickoff for the first time all season. He also demonstrated two of his many sides to Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman. Asked what he said to Aikman after helping the quarterback get off the ground after a sack, Sanders replied, "I told him to keep his head up and not get discouraged. Then I told him to throw me one." And in the postgame press conference Sanders displayed his gift for hyperbole. Asked about his decision earlier this season to sign with the 49ers for much less money than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIME TIME | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...root: energy. Always in his best work there are the signs of overflowing vitality, constrained by form's superego, the mode -- tragic, idyllic, epic, sacred. The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, 1638, is such a painting. % Poussin based it on a classical source -- Flavius Josephus' account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions, lie in Raphael. With its structure of color, bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Decorum and Fury | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...three months Murphy and his staff had put in the sort of hours that bring Wall Street executives millions. Ninety days of 7 a.m. starts, 90 days of 7 p.m. finishes, 90 days of sack lunches. Ninety days of total commitment, and all there was to show for it was a 32-13 loss to the second-worst team in the Ivy League...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Murphy's Last Stand | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...effort, Dartmouth linebacker Josh Bloom won the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week award. Bloom tallied 13 tackles, two for losses and a sack...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Penn Wraps Up Ivy League Title Again | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

...that: 'There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures.' Cartoonists such as Gilfray, Rowlandson and Cruickshank attacked the monarch in a manner which would look savage even today.' This intense criticism and lack of respect for the monarchy did not produce a serious, widespread consideration to sack it. Edward VIII's abdication crisis in 1936 might have provided some civil liberties rationale for abolition, but it did not. It was clear that the monarchy practiced discrimination in dismissing members of "the firm" for marrying whomever they chose...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: We Are Not Amused | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

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