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...final minutes, Brown tried valianty to beat a team it wanted to maul and should have massacred. But when Bruin signalcaller Steve Kettelberger--who had a superb day--attempted to lead his troops to a final touchdown, Harvard Captain Brent Wilkinson picked him off to seal the sweet upset...

Author: By Bob Cunha, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Knock, Knock | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

...Sweet potatoes and all kinds of teas...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing bag--and the literal work of the painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Rich, Feisty Eventfulness | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"). Frederick seems to have stepped out of Turgenev, a charming, superfluous man of no apparent conviction who winds up happily married to the owner of an Italian resort hotel. Mimi, sweet and depressive, is stood up for a date as a teen, and she is well past her prime before she settles for the aging manager of the Dorn factory. Betty the bohemian demonstrates a lively spirit by running off to Paris, but she is last seen as a Hollywood pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relativity Family and Friends | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...shot the Negroes" and "we are not ashamed of it," Farrakhan is harmless, at least for the present. He uses the basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that tickle his listeners, of sounding threatening one moment, sweet-talking the next and--essential device--of saying "love" as frequently as possible. But he lacks the timing and the verbal gifts of a virtuoso hatemonger. If Monday night's audience had not already been with him when they entered, Farrakhan could not have won them to his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Demagogue in the Crowd | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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