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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GBCs whet our appetite for the Heps," distance runner Andy Gerken said, "It was exciting seeing us compete at our full potential, but losing kept us hungry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Nab Second in GBC Track; Women Win Nothing, Run Fourth | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Summer is almost over and the fall concert season draws near; music is in the air. Here are six discs of orchestral and pianistic showpieces to ease the transition and whet the appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Obscure Bits and Greatest Hits | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Where no dreams appear to whet his analytical appetite, Edel proves to be a literary journalist of great skill. His chapter on Henry David Thoreau as Mamma's boy and great American freeloader is a model of concision and balance. So are his pieces on James Joyce as "injustice collector" and "unfinished genius," Tolstoy as a "prodigy of self-inhibitions" and "self-indulgence," Yeats as a hero of "creative aging," and T.S. Eliot as a successful battler against will-sapping depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secrets of Creative Nightmares | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Upon rare occasion, the effects of directorial interjection whet our appetite for issues that are never examined. Dall and Conrad rely on a conventional flashback series, first depicting Sally arriving at Framingham as a bellicose, hand-cuffed delinquent, then as a demure young lady applying make-up to her eyes, which cast arrogant glances on those of whom she disapproves. She has undergone a metamorphosis that is never explained or justified during the course of a cursory, several shot treatment...

Author: By Philippe L. Browning, | Title: Playing the Game | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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