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...sidelined for the season with knee tendonitis... Junior varsity stalwart Geoff Brooks also gone after trading oars for thespian gear in Hasty Pudding Show... The last time Harvard rowed on the Harlem River (1975), a Crimson rower was hit in the head with a rock from a spectator's sling-shot and was rushed to the hospital. Pickering had to race both J.V. and varsity that afternoon on a river he says is filled with "tires, nail-boards and bodies"... The race will be going with the tide-flow, which could make for swift times and could be a major...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Crews Open Regular Season | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

John Cassavetes' villain, whose crippled arm rests in a black sling, rarely raises his voice, and what recent villains have had this much sepulchral charm? His end morever, can only be compared to the finale of the 1812 Overture, and provides the one great, cathartic moment in the film...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Splattering Psychics | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

Quincy allowed the lethargic Leverett gridders only one first down the entire afternoon, but couldn't unravel its own punchless offense in the turnover-marred debacle. Don Bodener earned the plaudits of the Quincy faithful, intercepting a key Leverett sling while also directing Q-House's offensive traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Topples Winthrop, 12-6; Eliot Wins | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

...cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over his eye, his arm in a sling and his foot all bound up and stretched out on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Was His Line | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...rose, they scattered for cover when a Marine patrol helicopter appeared in the azure sky. Danger past, they made a small base camp and hid food and water in secret caches. Late in the afternoon they emerged from cover, easily caught at least seven kinds offish in traditional Hawaiian sling nets and cooked them on steaming stones. For a few hours, the old way of Hawaiian life had been re-established on Kahoolawe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Return of the Natives to Kahoolawe | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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