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...Eagles' Pam Piorkowski--the region's fifth-ranked player--then downed a torrid Jamie Henikoff in an atypical 6-2, 6-4 victory in second singles...
America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh two-step that swept across Europe last year after being imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos, lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers...
...that game, Sandy Springer led the Crimson with 17 points, while Dina Hadrick came off the bench to net 12 points. Wambach dished off nine assists. Overall, Harvard shot a torrid 61 percent-from the field to capture the victory...
...Crimson made a torrid 45 percent of its three-point attempts and outmuscled Vermont, 43-39, on the boards...
...longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...