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Harvard (11-9, 5-3 Ivy) split two double-headers, against Columbia and Penn, leaving them perched precariously atop the Rolfe totem pole, with only one game separating them from second-place Dartmouth...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: Despite Weather, Baseball Races Heat Up | 4/17/1996 | See Source »

...Mallrats, Smith puts a clown face on the college-age glums. Life is awful, so let's go shopping, cruising, trashing. The movie's presiding goddess is a trash totem--famously troubled ex-teen Shannen Doherty as the primary lust object. A '50s teen pic for the '90s, Mallrats focuses on the attempts of Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) to win back their girlfriends on--eek!--a game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...many rock stars. They get high on the double dream of being a sensitive poet and a swaggering stud--Rimbaud and Rambo. Garcia, who was no friend of the Soloflex, nonetheless fitted the mold of iconoblaster. In his drug taking he was a role model to some, a sacrificial totem to others. Wasn't he killing himself to create more beautiful music? That music was often swell, and as leader of the most fan-friendly band in rock, Garcia was a sort of secular saint of pop culture. But he stuffed himself with seductive toxins--and the myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERRY GARCIA: THE TRIP ENDS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

Although he may be number one on the totem pole, President Neil L. Rudenstine was only the fourth largest earner at the University last year, netting $241,298, a six percent increase over his previous year's salary...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: President's Earnings Are Fourth Largest | 7/7/1995 | See Source »

...week-to-week basis the arts are at the bottom of the [administration] totem pole, and ballet is at the bottom of the arts' totem pole," said Cushman...

Author: By Sandrine S. Goffard, | Title: Company Holds Its First Solo Ballet | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

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