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...suffered a badly sprained ankle in a game against Dartmouth at the Indoor Athletic Building, putting her out of action until the November 12 contest against Northeastern. "I went up for a spike and landed on my ankle," Jean-Louis explained...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Seven Spikers Struggle; Bruins Top Crimson, 3-0 | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

...female weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could get to her feet, the spike heel of another woman shopper pierced her skull, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing New York Air tells the folks from Des Moines about. As the camera pans across the city streets slicked down a la Miami Vice, we find ourselves inexplicably drawn to the omnipresent danger and bizarreness that fills...

Author: By Cristina V. Colleta, | Title: When the Lights Go Out in SoHo | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...panel will include Debra Robinson, spike Lee, Warrington Hudlin, and Reginald Hudlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Film Series Returns to Campus | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

...resumed building the upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Celebrating the Monument | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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