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Katsias and her defensive cohorts--Kelly, Bambi Taylor, Kristen Fallon, Sharon Kosakowski and Leelee Groome--have repeatedly frustrated opponents' drives with shoestring steals and long clearing passes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Take on Princeton; Crimson Needs Crucial Victory | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

The defense almost came through. Katsias and fellow defenders Anne Kelly, Kristen Fallon, Gia Barresi and Taylor turned back 23 Wildcat shots and 13 penalty corners and frustrated the polished and aggressive New Hampshire offense with shoestring steals and long clearing passes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNH Drops Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

At a certain highly enjoyable level, After Hours is the year's best shaggy- dog story. But it is also a subtle exercise in comedic and cinematic stylization by Director Martin Scorsese. In films as varied as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Among the first to speak out strongly in the classroom was Uncle Harry, who came to life in 1978 in a model program titled the Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP); it was Iput together by a fledgling group on shoestring grants for schools in Columbus after a local second-grader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Facing Up to Sex Abuse | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Charles Ludlam is at it again. His Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the Greenwich Village troupe that on a shoestring has rejuvenated the manly art of comic burlesque, now turns for its inspiration to the penny dreadful, a sensational form of fiction that nourished in Victorian Britain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tour de Farce | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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