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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown made its own halftime adjustments and came out challenging the Harvard defense with a five-receiver set. The Bears looked unstoppable at first, as Perry completed five passes in a row in driving to the Crimson...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bears Mar Football's Chances | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...their next drive, the Bears went back to the three-receiver set. Perry completed 7-of-9 passes, finding freshman flanker Chas Gessner and Campbell three times each as Brown passed its way to the Harvard...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bears Mar Football's Chances | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...After Departure Lounge's brief set, Hitchcock took to the stage alone, strumming his way through the opening song of Jewels, the misanthropic "Mexican God," on which he waxes Learian about "Moonly-lit cop-crashed garlic and babies." Hitchcock then embarked on a rambling between-song odyssey, describing two almost identical pumpkins standing beside each other on a lake shore, admiring each other. "It must be totally horrendous to be in love with something so like yourself," he remarked before launching into the next song. The songs themselves were a mix of old and new work (Hitchcock describes the show...

Author: By Taylor R. Terry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hithcock Ages Gracefully | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Hebraic equivalent. At other times, he writes with a contemporary lyricism that brings to life, however anachronistically, the thoughts and feelings of an ancient people: "what we are actually given to know about God from the Bible itself...is no consistent and harmonious portrait but rather a set of often out-of-focus, and sometimes apparently contradictory, snapshots, action photos from different angles and in different lighting." As the author of his own translations, Kugel pays special attention to issues of philological and linguistic debate and includes detailed notes on his own poetic renderings. Indeed, it is often through these...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kugel Riffs on Biblical Poesy | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...life is threatened, his ex-employers hire thugs to stalk and scare him, and his wife leaves with their two daughters; he loses everything for a chance to set the record straight and doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Where There's Smoke | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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