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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against Columbia (4-9, 0-2) on Friday the 13th, a solid Harvard defense jinxed the Lions into playing poorly. Led by Smith's 10 first-half points and sparked by Columbia's turnovers, the Crimson went on a 16-2 run in the last four minutes of the half to take a 12-point lead...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Men Cagers Sweep Past Columbia, Cornell | 1/15/1989 | See Source »

Against Columbia, the Crimson never trailed. It out-shot the Lions 41 to 34 percent. Columbia received solid efforts from all its players but could not overcome Chandler and Duncan. Columbia is 0-6 versus Harvard since the rivalry began...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: W. Cagers Sweep New Yorkers | 1/15/1989 | See Source »

...painting that initiated a spate of such images among the impressionists 20 years later, are drawn into the earth, their limbs and puffy faces asserting the heaviness of sleep. His trellised roses are inordinately fleshy; his apples, red and bruised -- no perfect objects of oral desire here -- are solid as stone. He painted hair, especially the thick curly tresses of Whistler's Irish mistress Jo Heffernan, as though he were running his fingers through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Abiding Passion for Reality Gustave Courbet | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...stint on the Late Show was a ratings success and ended only because Fox had previously committed itself to the Wilton North Report (yet another late-night failure). A Cleveland native, Hall started his show-biz career as a stand-up comic and became host of the TV series Solid Gold. But he claims he has wanted to do a talk show since age twelve: he calls Carson his "idol" and, like Johnny, was a child magician. When Paramount TV initially offered him his own show, Hall was reluctant, but he had a vision as a guest with Carson. "During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Nice-Guy Talk Hosts | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...released. "I'll take what's offered me," he says, "as long as it falls into certain parameters. I'm not going for the home run every time." Sometimes Hackman has hit bunt singles in a movie resume as long as a Chicago Cubs season. Yet he projects such solid authority that not even junk can embarrass him. "I actually think I've been lucky," says the star who can't say no. "Working constantly not only keeps me sharp, but relieves me of the responsibility of having to perform up to a certain level if I had been waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hackman: A Capper for a Craftsman | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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