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Strangely, the head, the supposed repository of wisdom and common sense, is the most prodigal of all heat leakers. It can lose 50% of all body warmth. The head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs...
Freshman Dave Silk scored the game-winner on a power play at 4:13 of the overtime period. Defenseman Gary Fay sent the puck to co-captain Mike Eurzione who slipped a pass to Silk in the slot...
...Silk scored the first of his three goals at 10:25 of the second period. Ralph Cox of UNH hoped to deter B.U.'s surge with a tally at 12:17, but the hard-driving Silk had other ideas, scoring the Terriers' fifth goal and bringing B.U. to within one goal of a deadlock...
...dominated the third period but scored only once. Marc Hetnic connected at 14:00 to tie the contest. In overtime, one minute after the Terriers had successfully killed off a four-minute Fay penalty, Silk pumped in the game-winning power-play goal...
What sounds like an excellent exhibition of modern masters is continuing, through February 9, at the Pucker/Safrai gallery at 171 Newbury Street. Works shown include linocuts, engravings and lithographs by Picasso; drawings of the human face and figure in ink, lithograph and charcoal by Matiss; and silk screen prints of Hundertwasser's Japanese woodcuts. There are also some lithographs by Chagall. A film, "Hundertwasser's Rainy Day," will be shown periodically in the course of the exhibit (Monday-Friday...