Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ursula K. Le Guin's novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Beginning Place, have made her the hottest name in contemporary scifi. The Compass Rose (Harper & Row; $14.95) shows her less a miler than a sprinter. The 20 stories reveal a versatile and far-ranging mind: one tale concerns two research scientists' attempt to decipher the writing of ants; another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended...
...more to the appeal of Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...
With the score 81-77, the Crimson needed to win the 4x400 relay to clinch the meet Brad Bunney got the squad off -to a good start with a very fast opening leg. Sprinter Jay Hudson took the baton and held onto the 50-yd. lead for most of the lap but just before he handed off. Northeastern's Mark MacKinnon made his move and cut the lead in half. That was as close as the Huskies ever got, though, as Bennet Midlo extended the Crimson lead and Dwayne Jones held on to give Harvard a comfortable...
...Yale sprinter Pat Melton won her third consecutive Treasurer's Cup, an award given to the outstanding performer of the meet, after winning the long jump, 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash...
...Like a sprinter who's slow out of the blocks or a boulder resting stop a mountain, the Harvard baseball team has a lot of trouble getting started. But once they get going, the batsmen pick up speed quickly and are virtually impossible to stop...