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...first and easiest impression of Parker-both on records and in performance-is of a spoiler, full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barnstorming For Fool's Gold | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: The icemen travel to aimless Troy, N.Y., on Saturday for a game with the deceptively tough RPI Engineers. Led by all-ECAC goalie Ian Harrison, RPI has played last-minute spoiler for the Crimson's playoff hopes the last two seasons, sneaking in on both occasions with a strong final month...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Spanks Icemen in Season Opener, 7-2 | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

Dartmouth and Army could play spoiler roles, but Brown and Cornell--a couple of patsies--will be despoiled...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Netmen Begin Race for League Crown | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...upset was not in the cards last night, leaving but one Ivy powerhouse for the Crimson to pick off this year. That change comes tonight, when first-place Penn comes to the IAB. If the Harvard cagers want to play a spoiler role in this year's race, tonight is their last chance...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Tiger Cagers Break Loose, Tame Crimson, 79-65 | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...home crowd went bananas midway through the final period when RPI jumped into a 7-6 lead, but Marc Hetnik evened it at seven before Meagher pumped in the spoiler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Survives RPI Scare, 8-7; Yale Knocks Off Eagles, 10-7 | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

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