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After Crimson guard Kevin Collins (11 points on five-for-six shooting) staged a personal seven-point Harvard run, junior forward Kyle Dodson ignited the sparse Monday night Briggs crowd by converting a mid-court steal into a slam dunk...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Streaking Cagers Bludgeon Judges, 79-63; Nail Down Second Straight Home Victory | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

However, freshman Lee Polikoff closed out the third set with a strong slam down the middle of the floor to give the Crimson...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Fifth in Ivy Tourney | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...STUDYING for next week's midterms, debating the value of a college education when, suddenly, you slam down last month's reserve reading, unable to carry on. Brain-fry has set in. You long to get away, maybe just for an hour or two, to forget the fact that living hell is just around the corner. You wander aimlessly up Plympton Street, mumbling something about Beowulf and macroeconomics, when you spot Adams House. If you're smart, you'll go in and see Scapine, a charming study break and timely cure for the mid-term blues...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: (E)scapining | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered 13 other eight-thousanders in the past 16 years, all without oxygen, Messner had completed mountaineering's grand slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinhold Messner: Hail to the Mountain King! | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Merengue technique involves no free-form violence, like slam dancing, and no shin-splinting fanciness, as in the mambo. It is less taxing than the tango, which caught on anew with the Broadway success of Tango Argentino, a show that spawned a fast-stepping tour and any number of gift certificates for dancing lessons. "Merengue's not a real complicated step pattern," says Lynne Frazier of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Burlingame, Calif. "You're not fighting to keep up with your feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: You Can't Stop Dancing | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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