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Though the women managed to display some stellar individual performances, qualifying three racers in next week's Division I Eastern Championships, the team as a whole failed to ski past any but lowly Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Slip, Slide at Carnivals | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...elephant and the fable are both creatures of Mobil Oil Corporation, which recently produced a series of "issue oriented" commercials in fable form to accompany its Mobil Showcase television series "Edward and Mrs. Simpson." The elaborately-created ads, which feature stellar dance and mime groups, including the American Ballet Theater, promote the corporation's faith in laissez-faire capitalism and encourage the viewer to take stands against government control of profits, policy and company activities...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Once Upon a Corporation... | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

School and pool records; spectacular diving; finishes determined only by the electric timing system; NCAA qualifying performances; and a stellar exhibition by the cute but often obnoxious Harvard Band; this meet...

Author: By John S.bruce, | Title: Crimson Swimmers stun Indiana, 67-46 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Writing while bringing up children, Le Guin sold her first short story when she was 30 and then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The Farthest Shore (1972) received a National Book Award. As the youngsters went off to school, the author fell into a writing schedule that she still maintains. She goes to her writing room in the house each morning at 9 and sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds Enough and Time | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Despite the Hall-of-Fame line up of artists in the show, the works of some of the big names are less than stellar. Alberto Giacommetti's sculpture "Walking Woman" has none of the impact of his more famous anorexic forms. The works of Miro, Gorky, Moore, and Brancusi are equally disappointing...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: A Tortured Tradition | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

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