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Yale laced a pair of third-period goals to strap the Harvard women's hockey team with a 2-1 loss last night in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Outscored But Not Outplayed | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...real, too. Bobby certainly hadn't ingested any LSD-25, and as far as anyone knows, beer isn't known to have any hallucinogenic properties. He wasn't dreaming, pipe or otherwise, and he knew he was too conscious as he scratched the compelling itch under his jock strap...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey tied on a short leather strap to the top of a sinister-looking mirror table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's Biennale Time Again | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Like many fashionable Italians, Alessandro De Tomaso, owner of the Maserati car company, carries an elegant man's handbag dangling from a shoulder strap. But his bag is unusual in one respect. By slipping his hand through an open flap on the side, De Tomaso can quickly grab a .38 revolver that he keeps cradled inside. Says he: "It is just a normal hazard of business life in Italy today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: If You Give Up, They Win | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that you will have nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brain Death | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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