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Lacrosse and field hockey star Ceci Clark and swimmer Stephanie Wriede shared the top female athlete honors while squash wizard Jeremy Fraiberg was named best male athlete...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barcelona Bound | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...drearier streets of New Haven, Conn., drawing eager throngs like some dark version of the Good Humor truck. Four times a week, the "dope fiends," as they call themselves, line up to enter the vehicle. They identify themselves to city workers by their code names ("Carol Burnett," "Streetcat," "Wizard") and, in exchange for used needles, receive survival kits: bottles of bleach, bottles of water, clean needles, and condoms. They do this because they are terrified of the epidemic that is raging through their city. "Just because I shoot drugs doesn't mean I don't care about AIDS. I care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting The Point In New Haven | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...salesman. The woman (Brigitte Bako), torn between the hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid). The film's heavy-breathing style -- sensuous slow-motion, arty dissolves, fetishistic close-ups -- is too studied to be erotic, but there's one thing in its favor: it looks like nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Lost Farm" is painted on the mailbox at Will Hapgood's place in Bolton, Mass. and if you aren't trying to reach his property you may well be lost. The road is not a main thoroughfare in town. When we parked and walked towards the house, a short, wizard-like figure dressed in blue jeans, hiking boots and a T-shirt hailed us from where he was working in the garage. "Y'all come in your Volkswagens?" he shouted. That was Will...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Sun Worshippers | 5/13/1992 | See Source »

...Kassar's hesitancy was understandable. He wouldn't want anything to disrupt his profitable CIA-assisted drug and arms business. Presumably he was also worried because West German police had just raided the Popular Front hideouts around Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Among those arrested: the Jordanian technical wizard and bombmaker Marwan Khreesat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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