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...refugees from the Snow Belt, just playing and coaching against these teams was a thrill...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lacrosse Squads Spring Into Action... While Batsmen break it Open in Calif. | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

However, Director Harold Becker does succeed in capturing the excitement of wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport...

Author: By Christopher J. Harley, | Title: A Philosophical Athlete? | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

Some band members say that while they enjoy performing, the real thrill of belonging to a band is the opportunity of play music with other people. Drummer Richard Peasley '88 said. "There's only so much you can get of practicing the drums on your own--it's not a solo instrument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Bands: Getting to the Hard Core | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

Dowling, who never fails to provide a thrill, was taken to five games for the fourth time in the past two weeks. The sophomore lost the first game in a tiebreaker, but came back to take command with two 15-5 victories to put himself...

Author: By Brian Mccarthy, | Title: Racquetmen Roll to 9-0 Victory Over Green | 2/21/1985 | See Source »

This is Michelangelo as he was not meant to be seen. One has the illicit thrill of inspecting the mechanism of illusion, of seeing what devices and abbreviations he used to make sure the figures would "read" from restricted angles 65 ft. below. One thinks of him on the ladder, carrying the scheme of exaggeration in his head like a brimful bucket. On the curved surfaces of the ceiling and spandrels, he used cartoons, full-size drawings whose outlines were transferred to the plaster. But the lunettes, or flat semicircular panels, around the top of the Sistine's windows, show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Unfamiliar Michelangelo | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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