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...orderly person who is ejected from a public restaurant. The rest of the column was devoted to a classic example of what O'Keeffe so greatly fears: a 750-word, clinical rundown on a Chinese restaurant, including the likeliest days to get a decent meal and a wrist-slap for the rest rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Dictator of Dining Out | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Mark Fusco, the Crimson's All-American blueliner, had his best game of the season, twice carrying the puck from his own net into the offensive zone and grooving nasty slap-shots between the pads of defenseless netminder Gray Weicker...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Undefeated Saints Take One From Icemen, 4-3 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...eerie youthfulness. Newman was 42 in 1967, for instance, when he appeared in Cool Hand Luke, a character who looked about 28, and who would not have made sense as a man much older than that; he was 52 in 1977 when he played Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot, an over-the-hill hockey player who looked 39½. In person now, without makeup, he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...Slap Shot (1977): One of my favorite movies. Unfortunately that character is a lot closer to me than I would care to admit-vulgar, on the skids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: His Own Critic: Newman on Newman | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

After Dartmouth had scored three of those baskets in a row, Smith encouraged centers Holpuch and Wendy Joseph to front Diagle on defense to cut off a possible lob pass, while guards Pat Horne and Anne Scannell waited behind her to slap the ball from her hands it the pass got through. That defensive ploy worked well, but playing defense has its costs. Both Horne and Scannell fould out in the last minutes of play...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Crimson Hoopsters Fall to Big Green Attack, To Face Penn Saturday in Second Ivy Game | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

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