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Despite the lack of key run production at times this past weekend against both Army and Brown, the Crimson offense has produced at a torrid pace over the first 20 games, compiling a .334 batting average and a .428 on base average...

Author: By Mark W. Onaitis, | Title: Freshmen Doing Just Fine, Thanks | 4/16/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey team has had its ups and downs this season. The Crimson (10-8 overall, 10-6 ECAC) got off to a torrid 8-2 start in its division and broke into the Albany Times-Union poll as the nation's tenth-ranked team. Harvard then dropped four straight during Reading Period, but changed gears again this past weekend with wins over Army and Princeton...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Roy: Rock-Solid Netminder | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...fraternal twin to Sky in the Bertolucci canon is Last Tango in Paris, his taboo-trashing melodrama about a displaced American (Marlon Brando) who provokes a torrid, cloistered affair with a young Frenchwoman. But the new movie is not about sex -- or even, Bertolucci says, "the impossibility of love. It is about the impossibility of being happy within love. Kit and Port don't realize that the modern couple is an endangered species. Couples are so attacked by the outside world that they create a kind of fusion, a symbiosis. And that takes them, eventually, to a crisis. They look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tragedy Is Their Destination | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Brown (0-2) extended its torrid losing streak to 11 straight dual-meet defeats going back to last season, while the Crimson upped its record to 3-0 in EISL competition. Reasonably enough, Harvard did not expect too much of a challenge from the Bruins, to whom it had not lost to in the last three years...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Aquamen Dominate Brown, 159.5-77.5 | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

...debate was torrid, the issue momentous. But even in the midst of last week's parliamentary debate over the country's economic destiny, many Soviet lawmakers could not tear their eyes from the newspapers in their laps. Here was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the nation's current crisis in the pages of nothing less than Komsomolskaya Pravda (circ. 22 million), the mouthpiece of the Young Communist League. The 16,000-word text was also printed in Literaturnaya Gazeta (4.5 million), which only five years ago berated its author as "that vile scum of a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tolling The Death Knell: Solzhenitsyn urges the swift breakup of the union | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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