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...Crimson is one of four teams remaining in the NCAA Tournament. With a victory over Duke Sunday in Durham, N.C., Harvard--which beat Hartwick, 2-0, last Sunday--will move on to the NCAA Tournament Final to be played in Tacoma, Wash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Booters Honored | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...stretch north of Basel. Perhaps the most damage was done by several hundred pounds of the mercury-based fungicide Tillex, which settled into the riverbed just downstream from the Sandoz warehouse. It will have to be dredged up as soon as possible, Swiss authorities said, or the current may wash it farther downstream. "The Rhine will be dead for years to come," said Professor Ragnar Kinzelbach of the Technical University in Darmstadt, West Germany. Although locks and floodgates were closed to protect many of the river's tributaries from the poisonous flow, other waterways appear threatened. Dutch officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment a Proud River Runs Red | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...tape signals the intense level of competition that is coming soon to the video store near you -- or has already arrived. The number of outlets that rent or sell videocassettes has surged from as few as 10,000 in 1981 to more than 35,000 today. Everyone from car-wash operators to grocers to American Express has got into the act of dispensing tapes. The array of new outlets is bringing lower prices, wider selection and greater convenience for consumers, but it is also beginning to squeeze out many of the mom-and-pop operators. "A little fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Video Merchants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Instead, Louis sought a language of impersonal nuances. He found it in a complicated process of pleating the canvas and flooding it with runnels of diluted color, wash after wash, never a brush mark in sight. He "drew" his shapes by manipulating the effects of gravity on liquid. This certainly eliminated the traces of the expressive hand and gave his surfaces a sweet, frictionless clarity. It was also chancy in the extreme, since it courted the possibility of turning the image into a decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Look At a Beautiful Impasse | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...reminded of Dukakis as I watched first term Sen. Slade Gorton(R-Wash.) go down to defeat on Tuesday night. Gorton is earnest, straight and wants to do it right. He is honest to a fault, it appears...

Author: By Martin A. Linsky, | Title: The Duke Factor | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

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