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...Falle's skates were a size smaller, Harvard would have regained the lead. The 5-ft., 11-in., 18-lb, goalie swung his foot towards the puck just in time to kick it clear...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Swimmers First, Icemen Second | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...North Carolina that includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune and the Army's Fort Bragg. This month, 2,000 troops returned from Grenada, and 1,800 Marines, some aboard the Iwo Jima, came back from Lebanon. They stepped into a familiar dream. Bands played. Infants were tweaked. Couples swung M-16s out of the way and hugged. The troops were home. They had served, and served well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Who Also Shaped Events | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...deployment by the U.S. and its allies of new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. As a result of NATO's resolve, a long and frustrating interlude in the convoluted drama of the nuclear arms race was over. But by the same token, a door had swung open on new uncertainties for the process of arms control, with attendant risks for all the vitally interested players?and the world at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Walkout | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...governments came to power almost simultaneously in Nicaragua and Grenada, Castro's clout seemed to be on the rise. But an erosion began the next year when voters in Jamaica elected conservative Edward Seaga to succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with four Soviet diplomats in a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba on the Defensive | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...this backstairs relationship, the suspenseful buildup of innuendoes about Serge's unnatural affection for Nicole is a theatrical trick of the worst kind, a bombshell that has no effect on the characters. We could forgive Tremblay these histrionics if he made the moment of our discovery a fulcrum, and swung the family into revealing psychological or moral perceptions. But his probing of Serge's childhood is just pablum from the Freudian stockpot. "We brought you up like a little girl," Lucienne tells Serge, and then berates him for not being gay and thereby escaping the family. It is supposed...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Comme-ci, Comme-ca | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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