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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside, the third period of the tight, one-goal contest began. Thirteen minutes later, Crimson junior Allen Bourbeau notched a power play goal to give Harvard a little cushion...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Column One | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

When Chloe arrives, odd woman out, Western and husbandless in the tight society of Iranian and American couples at the medical dormitories, she finds that Hugh is unaccountably missing. She takes pleasure in her disappointment: "With Hugh not there she could pay in advance for anticipated pleasures, pay by uncertainty, solitude, and serious study, in a land hostile to women, far from her children, in an ugly room. What destiny could then begrudge her just a little fling?" Such a question, in the context of Iran, turns out to be poignantly beside the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Onlookers At A Revolution PERSIAN NIGHTS | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...played with subtle wit by Adriane Stewart, holds tight to her sense of humor even though she's just had an abortion and, the dialogue implies, been raped. She all but steals the show as she mopes around the stage interjecting sarcastic comments under her breath. Lyra O. Barrera's Stas--a whore bent on hustling her way to a Hawaiian medical school--prances around in her underwear reading Scientific American out loud and advising Dusa and Fish to toughen...

Author: By Jocelyn L. Morin, | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...that that's non-sense," Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said of Walsh's assertion. "There is a tremendously tight housing market in Cambridge, and the lifting of the ordinance would mean that a tremendous number of apartments would be converted to condominiums," he said...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Rent Control Study Draws Political Fire | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

Working five days a week from 10 to 6 on a tight, seven-week shooting schedule (the exteriors will be shot later in Ireland), Huston has little room for error. Although his physical condition limits his mobility, he still agonizes over the simplest things, laboring to get the effect just right. "I like it when the audience forgets there's a screen, forgets it's a story and just beholds," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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