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...acts more like an lago than a Prospero. Karen Macdonald's Suzanne follows his lead--spleen overbalances sweetness. Harry Murphy's smug Count and Cheryl Ginannini's hoarse, pouting Countess are closer to the mark--he displays all the insight of a brontosaurs, she the passivity of a wildcat. These are Beaumarchais' hollow hulks of aristocracy waiting for someone...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Trouble of Being Born | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...with the Edmonton Oilers, Gretzky, 20, obeys the commandment. The 5-ft. 11-in., 165-lb. center is the most exciting one-man show in the sport. Little known outside the puck-hustling world, the Great Gretzky, as he is called by ice-rink railbirds, blows N.H.L. records like wildcat gushers on the Alberta plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Great Gretzky | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Three stars should also go to the Crimson defense, especially its anchor. All-American Haywood Miller, for harassing the Wildcat forwards relentlessly, forcing repeated errors...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Laxmen Baffle UNH, 12-7; Forbush Scores Three | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

Hesler made it 2-1 UNH with an unassisted goal at 21:39 as Harvard proceeded to keep the ball in the UNH end for most of the next 20 minutes. The Crimson came up empty handed, however, plagued by sloppy passing and a stellar performance by Wildcat keeper Debra Cram, who stopped 19 shots in the first half alone...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Second Half Sinks UNH As Laxwomen Roll, 9-2 | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...John's father had amassed capital of $120,000 and set up his own oil exploration business. Hinckley Oil, now known as Vanderbilt Energy Corp., affirmed the man's entrepreneurial mettle. And Son Scott, an engineering major at Vanderbilt University, would soon join his dad's wildcat enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drifter Who Stalked Success | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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