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Even if the average Square-dweller has so far escaped some pimply outcast's displaced frustration, no one can avoid the hawkers of Square Deal and other useless pieces of paper. Clogging the already insufficient sidewalk space, they shove their worthless dreck into your face, screaming an annoying cant the whole time...

Author: By Ben Heller, | Title: A Modest Plan for Square Reform | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

...point, [the suspended guard] feltsomeone shove him from behind up against thewall," Officer Robert A. Cooper wrote in hispolice report...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guard Suspended After Alleged Fight With Fellow Officer | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

...staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, and extends until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two More for The Road | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...classical-ballet stylist, and Tharp, whose roots were in '60s rock and pop. But together they stretched the boundaries of dance. Tharp was one of many choreographers who were trying to harness their talents to the Russian's genius, and mostly these efforts flopped. But her Push Comes to Shove (1976) showed a different, up-to-the- minute Baryshnikov -- impish, racy and reckless -- and a new idiom for classical ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two More for The Road | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

Ament says she must wake up every morning plotting how she will push and shove her way past swarms of Quadlings and onto the shuttle bus--if she wants to get to class on time...

Author: By Javier V. Garcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE HARVARD SHUTTLE SERVICE? | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

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