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...Half the Yale Bowl fell silent, and the other half was deafening. All eyes were on Hu, Harvard's all-time leading rusher who ran for 175 yards that day. With 29 seconds left, those eyes saw Hu scamper into the end zone to steal a victory and redeem a season...

Author: By Notorious G.i.z., EDUARDO PEREZ-GIZ | Title: Life After Death | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Vampires are a Paris gang preying on the rich and eluding their nemesis, a crusading reporter. He is the nominal hero, but the villains are the stars: smarter, snazzier. They scamper over the roofs of Paris in their Spider-Man skivvies; they perform the great stunts; they are the master spies, the mad bombers, the killer caterers. And in Irma Vep (played by Musidora, fetchingly saturnine in pancake makeup and black tights), Les Vampires gave us film's first modern woman. No wonder the Paris police banned an episode for depicting "exalted evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serial Thriller | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson's first touchdown, a three-yard scamper by Linden on an option right, came after senior linebacker Joe Weidle's punt block gave Harvard possession at the Lehigh 22-yard line...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard students often go to Fresh Pond. I explained how they take the T to Alewife, wait for a green light and use the crosswalk over the Alewife Brook Parkway, walk across the bridge that spans the railroad tracks and then, with the movie theaters in sight, they, ahem, scamper down the hill...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Technicolor Dreams and Hillside Blues | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Denver: The Beloved Uncool | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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