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...everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Sister | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...script didn't change much in the Crimson's latest victory, which once again saw Harvard fall behind early, scrap to get back in it and then hang on to record the most precarious of victories...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Laxwomen Topple Rutgers | 4/11/1984 | See Source »

...detraction, believe me," says Bayer, "and being back among old friends is great too. But the most important thing is having a place to compete again. It's a second chance at life, really." Guy Wolstenholme, 53, says, "We could all be on the scrap heap." That name is familiar only in international golf, but Wolstenholme, an Englishman who has played most of a distinguished career in Australia, won $72,757 last year to finish eighth in the senior standings. "I've lost a few yards' distance since December," he lightly notes. "Cancer. Not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Golfers Never Fade | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Desperate to save his political skin and perhaps even his life, Gemayel late in the week took a step that represented still another blow to U.S. policy. He decided to scrap the agreement his government had signed with Jerusalem last May 17, calling for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in return for Lebanese concessions on political and security arrangements in the southern part of the country. The agreement never went into effect, because it was contingent on a simultaneous Syrian pullout from Lebanon that Damascus refused to accept. Nonetheless, the pact, achieved after heavy U.S. prodding of both sides, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure of a Flawed Policy | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...scene, the secretary (Fanny Ardant) has just found a mysterious scrap of paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

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