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...YORK--Patrick Ewing scored 18 points as second-ranked Georgetown overcame stubborn Providence in the second half for a 70-50 Big East Conference quarterfinal basketball victory last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...final time, there was no joy. A stillness was in the locker room as 20 drained hockey players looked for reasons for the loss. But underneath the silence, underneath the hung-down heads and flushed heads, underneath the queasy feeling that there were no more chances, there was a stubborn stoicism...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Fighting The Past | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Above all, he can be stubborn. A long-running argument has been brewing in the Feldstein household over whether to get a television set for the family vacation home near Brattleboro, Vt. His daughters Margaret, 13, and Janet, 11, say yes, but father tunes them out on the ground that the tube would intrude on their time together. "I side with Marty," says Wife Kathleen. "The girls obviously don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bear of Bearish News | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...film's slowness and predictability are not its major problems. As a director, Newman has set himself two obstacles that prove more stubborn: one is his own powerful presence as an actor; the other is Robby Benson's lack of one. Newman may be pushing 60 in chronological fact but he looks as if he is barely pushing 50' And while it's inspiring to see his famous piercing gaze undimmed by the passing years, his vigor vitiates his attempt to portray a man to whom death has dropped a broad hint, just as it undermined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warm Puppy | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...that is Puck's. With show business hair and a sparkling tux? He is here, folks, the man who brought back "deluxe" To budget deficit: Ronald king of the clucks. Well those are the biggies whom everyone knows. ButPeople goes on with less popular Joes. Like Hiroo Onoda, a stubborn old man. Who hid in the woods half his life for Japan. The great war had ended, but no one told Hiroo, (Why does he remind me of Spiro Agnew...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: PEOPLE, Not People Like You | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

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