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After a couple of sloppy wins, Princeton taught the booters a 4-1 lesson in New Jersey, but that old stand by, the weather--this time in monsoon form--took most of the blame. Then in the final game before the post-season tournaments, UMass taught the Crimson control, as...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Seasoned With Success | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

McCue is a passable Vanya, but he proves unwilling or incapable of ditching his distracting mannerisms. In the first two acts he consistently plays for laughs, a crotchety jokester or ludicrous lover, jerking his body back from the waist and vocalizing like a pompous burgermeister with an occasional British falsetto...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: So Far Away | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

Women's soccer (8-3): The Ivy tournament this weekend will give the Crimson's often-awesome women booters a chance to avenge a couple of sloppy losses. The offense since Saturday has been stifled by the rain at Princeton and shut out (for the first time) by archrival UMass...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Taking Stock of Fall Sports | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

More often the writing is simply sloppy. Sentences are short and clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

More often the writing is simply sloppy. Sentences are short and clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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