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...fourth goal of the game was not Harvard's however, but instead it was another tally for Providence on a slick counterattack, and the game was pretty much over...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Loses to Providence, 3-1 | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best friend, Red Redding (Morgan Freeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Joint Enterprise | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

Case in point: last season. The Crimson had one of the best goalies in the east, junior Jessica Milhollin. It had a stifling defensive backfield. It had a skilled string of halfbacks. And it had some slick-passing forwards. Still, it faired poorly in the win-loss department...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Is Field Hockey Rebuilding? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...just as small, he would steal, sell drugs, set fires. He had been barred from local stores because of his thievery. The manager of the local Gallery corner market says, "He had a 11-year-old body, but he was 29 or 30 in the head. He was a slick con artist. They should have hung him in the middle of the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Are No Children Here | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with me, I'll teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Anti-Gravity | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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