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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this weren't enough, Tolins will portray Salieri in a December production of Amadeus. This is a sort of dream role for him, as he already used it in high school to garner top honors from the National Catholic Forensics League. Salieri is another in a long series of bizarre character roles--from Voltaire in Candide to Sultan Battery in last year's Pudding extravaganza--that Tolins has exploited throughout his Harvard acting career...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: All His World's a Stage | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

...Bill Wolff, tri-captain of the Harvard men's water polo team, asserted that "it's not really that sad--we all had a good time. The scores [weren't] the lasting impression...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Aquadudes Pummeled | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...Holy Cross players weren't actually paradigms of sports manship, either. They were handed a pair of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties late in the fourth period, with the game well in hand...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Crusaders Unholy in Victory | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...world, but someone that likes this guy, that's the guy that sneaks you." They heard Zannino and John Cincotti complaining about a competing Irish gang of hoods. Said Cincotti: "They don't have the scruples that we have." Zannino agreed. "You know how I knew they weren't Italiano? When they bombed the (expletive) house. We don't do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking up her small daughter, says of Gotti, "I think he's good for 101st Avenue. There's no riffraff around here. If it weren't for him, this neighborhood would be carried away by the drug addicts." Every year on the Fourth of July, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club holds a picnic for the community, with fireworks, hot dogs, hamburgers and ice cream. A woman wearing red Reebok sneakers and wheeling a small baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two From the Neighborhood | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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