Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people he plays. Redford retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality that is at the nexus...
Harvard went into the match hoping to avenge Saturday's defeat at the Huskies' hands in the Northeastern Invitational semi-final. In that match Harvard came close to victory before losing...
Stuyvesant leads the nation with 53 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, and sent 26 graduates to Harvard this year...
Last fall, the Bruins avenged some of the sting of the previous losses with a come-from-behind victory over the second-seeded Crimson in the Ivy semi-finals. After blanking host Yale, 3-0, in the consolations, the Cantabridgians could only watch from the sidelines as Brown, powered by two Cameron Tuttle tallies, edged top-ranked Princeton, 2-0, in overtime for the championship...
Updike works at home in a semi-attached room that once housed an antiques store. He settles in there each morning by 9, usually writes in pencil on the backs of old manuscripts, then acts as his own typist. He tries to complete three pages a day: "I set that quota for myself many years ago, and it seems to be about right. It's not so much that you're overwhelmed by it, and it's not so little that you don't begin to accumulate a manuscript." After a late lunch around...