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Despite some valiant play by Riopelle, Alpert, and Doyle, the Crimson yielded the final game to East Stroudsburg...
Alas, this valiant attempt to find something funny about the endless columns of figures was already outdated. The sound-and-sight gag did dramatize what Ronald Reagan considers the theme of the budget he was scheduled to present formally to Congress on Monday: the painful necessity of virtually freezing overall federal spending in order to reduce gargantuan deficits. But long before the fat, gray-bound budget volumes appeared over the weekend, that theme had got lost in a spreading uproar over one component of the budget that Reagan, far from freezing, wants to maintain at a rolling boil: military spending...
Both the men and women duellists from South Bend proved that yesterday at the IAB, as they turned back valiant efforts from both Harvard squads, handing the men a 16-11 loss and stabbing the Crimson women...
...Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
...production, with its breathtaking subway set by Douglas Stein, appears more than anything else a valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...