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After falling behind, the hosts lost their cool Defenseman Mike Schafer, perhaps egged on by the "Kill, Schafer, Kill" chants that rained down from the crazed students in the packed rink, tried first to take on the entire Crimson bench with his stick and sunk lower and lower as the game progressed...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Rip Red, 11-3; Fusco Sets Marks | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

Harvard pushed the ball upcourt immediately, but after a Pat Smith pass went awry, New Hampshire sunk two free throws to seal...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Cagers Drop Squeaker to UNH; Crimson 1-3 After 65-62 OT Defeat | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...advice. "The only band that matters" has managed to become almost totally irrelevant. The boys have completely ceased to do what they once did so well, possible because of Mick Jones's absence, and possibly because of Joe Strummer's stepped-up presence. With this record, the band has sunk even deeper into the muck out of which Combat Rock crawled--and The Clash will be inextricably stuck in the muck unless they manage to cut the crap...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Full Of It | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...ocean that soon becomes a desert, and then winds up back in his living room"--that completes a cycle. Like a Biblical parable, it tells of the destruction of civilization at the hands of hubristic pseudo-intellectuals. The punishment: society is destroyed like the Tower of Babel and sunk into the ocean like Atlantis...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Feast for All | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

...felt secure enough to marry a bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were to return us to that now fashionable scene it would be unrecognizable. An amusement park was going to seed. Lion cages were sunk in the water. The roller coaster was decaying, ready to fall into the sea. All around us was a freak show of old movie personalities and show-business hangers-on. It was like something out of a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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