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It is a shame that Gordon lapses into such a sloppy narrative after the powerful beginning of Final Payments. Despite her disappointing story line and characters, the author's language is straightforward and immediate. In providing minute descriptions of her characters' physical environment, Mary Gordon's prose echoes that of...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Twentieth Century Sin | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

An obstruction call in the Harvard penalty area set up an indirect kick fifteen feet from the goal. Only sloppy URI play prevented a score.

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: URI Boots Frustrated Crimson Squad, 1-0, To End Two-Game Soccer Winning Streak | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

PRINCETON at COLUMBIA--In its first three games, highly-touted Princeton has shown itself to have a slow quarterback, a sloppy veer offense and a porous defense. Then again, every year Columbia seems to be turning the corner, then they fool you and go 2-7. This time the Lions...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: JACK'S PROFILES | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

And it left an empty feeling in one's stomach that Columbia won on a sloppy goal after Bill Blood had come of age with some spectacular saves to keep the Crimson in the game.

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Sizzle, Then Fizzle in OT, 3-2 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

By charging Crane with squandering the taxpayers' money by running a sloppy office and depositing Massachusetts money in out-of-state banks--not to mention a number of other alleged irregularities--DiCara is trying to create the image of an incompetent treasurer

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primaries: A Glance at the Candidates | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

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