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...bullets and shells. "I got third-degree burns from a machine gun," she groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars, but mostly, she says, "I applied a lot of ice" to that not-so-bionic skin. -By Claudia Wallis

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 5, 1981 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life was meaningless. "All those yardsticks for success that had come to mean so much to me were shattered-being pretty and popular, dating the right guys." The first time she went shopping for clothes, "they just hung on me like a sack." After waves of depression and a phase of reading existentialists and atheists, she gradually came back to a deepened version of the orthodox Christianity in which she had been raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This Is a God I Can Trust | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

More than a year ago, in the sack of mail delivered each afternoon to the Crimson, a stream of letters began to appear. Unlike most of the mail--announcements of bassoon concerts and speeches by nuclear chemists, or indignant responses to recent articles--these letters addressed only the great issues of the day, and with a style and a penmanship that made them unmistakable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: The House Football Writers Association (HFWA) voted Garvey, with his fumble recovery and the game's key sack late in the game, outstanding defensive player, while Hatamiya copped the offensive honors... So what does it all mean? According to Quincy defensive back Marty "Kill the Beast" Schwimmer, "It's like the high school championship we never won." FINAL STANDINGS Wins Losses *1.Quincy 5 0 *2.South 4 1 *3.Eliot 3 2 *4.Winthrop/Leverett 3 2 *5.Kirkland 2 3 *6.Dunster/Mather 2 3 *7.Currier 1 4 *8.Lowell 0 5 *--denotes teams which will play against Yale on Friday...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy Eases By SoHo, 12-6, Garners First Gridiron Title | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

...long Mike Ryan to Gordon Anderson pass put Kirkland on the move, but a key sack by Keane put an end to the threat and gave Quincy the division title...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy Shuts Out Kirkland House, 6-0, Clinches Second Straight Division Title | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

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