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This season may have been disappointing to Tom Yohe, Harvard's quarterback, who seemed destined to capture Ivy League Most Valuable Player honors this season after breaking nearly every Harvard singleseason passing record last year. Yohe threw more interceptions (nine) than touchdowns (eight), and was injured in Week 7 against Brown. But Yohe still did well, completing 117 of 225 passes for 1677 yards...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Best of Harvard's Worst Times | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Accused, screenwriter Tom Topor and director Jonathan Kaplan imagine a worst-case scenario that poses all of these questions and plays them out in a moral twilight zone where ambiguity gives way to atrocity. The movie boasts a daring, acute performance by Jodie Foster as Sarah, the coarse-mouthed waitress with the SXY SADI license plate, who can fist her face into a pugnacious sulk or vamp persuasively enough to steam your specs. In the process, The Accused has defied Hollywood odds to become an autumn hit, earning $18 million in its first 24 days of release. It has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...show that opened for review this week sadly recalled the 1956 U.S. debut, in which Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell found the laughs, and interpolated a few more, without grasping the work's tragic austerity. Williams and Martin may comprehend the play but do not show faith in it. Although the puns and pratfalls come mostly from Beckett, there are inexcusable interjections, and the emotional force is dissipated in kickshaws and clowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Clowning Around with a Classic WAITING FOR GODOT | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Writers and editors watch the morning shows, say, and decide to check the stories out." For the sake of detente, these natural adversaries must get along to get ahead. "Some journalists say that the publicity machine isn't worth the powder it would take to blow it up," notes Tom Green, a writer for USA Today. "I disagree. Publicists are an integral part of the picture. If you want access, you have to play the game. At times I feel very manipulated and frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Does This Film Seem Familiar? | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Republicans claimed their first victory in 24 years in Montana, where former state senator Stan Stephens defeated a comeback attempt by former Democratic Governor Tom Judge. The Republicans also held onto Rhode Island, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notes GOVERNORS: First Son, First Finishes | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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