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...wet, quick-playing field should have been a boon to the Crimson eleven, which in recent contests has perfected a maneuverable offense based on pinpoint passing and individual speed...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Nips Crimson Booters, 2-1; God, Showers Crush Ivy Title Hopes | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Both Logan and Dixon slipped over the wet 6.2 mile course in personal bests, clocking times of 30:25 and 30:44 respectively...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harvard Harriers Burn Big Red, 25-30 | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

...mention that some Canadians "felt a little squeamish" at the sight of Cancer Victim Terry Fox's [Sept. 15] occasionally bloody stump and his face contorted in pain as he attempted his long-distance run across the country. I did not feel squeamish. My face was wet with tears because he ran for my friend, for my uncle, for my father-in-law. His run was against a universal enemy, cancer, that touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1980 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

Seeing Rossellini's Open City did it. Overwhelmed by the director's neorealism, she wrote to offer herself as an actress: the only Italian she knew, she told him, was "ti amo." Their affair was inevitable, though its bliss was wet with her guilty tears. When she gave birth to Rossellini's child, Bergman became part of a warm and rackety Italian family, though nothing made up for the loss of young Pia, the daughter she had abandoned in Hollywood. She bore Rossellini a son and twin daughters. But the films she made with him were wretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Autumn Sonata | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

DESPITE THE ABOVE, the Eaters, seeking to widen their appeal, have sanitized at least one of their songs. "My pants are soaking wet," Cataldo sings, from the "Girl Next Door." But while he still "sits and waits all day for her to walk his way," she is no longer explicitly invited to "sit down on my face," as was the case when the Eaters sang at The Rat; instead, Cataldo merely reminds us that he longs for "another taste" of said girl. While not in itself a major issue, this could signify a disturbing trend...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Gobble, Gobble | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

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