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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widerman and Beling stand a good chance at bringing home some silver when the grapplers wrap it up at this weekend's Eastern Championships at Princeton...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Grapplers Finish With Weekend Split | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...Lewis's father, revealing the old man's perpetual dissatisfaction with his son. The speech should be a tour-de-force--Dern does a beautiful job with it--but it is so empty in concept, so obvious in construction, that it reveals nothing except the playwright's desire to wrap things up neatly...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Strangely Bland | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Most of this production lacks this sense, and contents itself with a faithful but unresonant delivery of the Bard's poetry. In an odd way, this approach actually improves the play's lengthy final scene. With too many loose ends to wrap up neatly, Shakespeare threw up his hands in disgust here and let the Duke run wild, marrying couples and ending subplots in one-line salvos--and he never wrote comedy again. But he left directors with an awesome problem of how to present the scene believably. They have offered it as a parody of incompetent plotting...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Flirting With Justice | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Desai, 82, had no desire to help Gandhi wrap herself in martyr's robes. But Janata hardliners, stung by Gandhi's barb that the proceedings were "like a medieval star chamber," balked at Desai's plan of suspending her from Parliament until she publicly apologized for the 1975 offense. Snapped Janata Member Kanwar Lal Gupta: "Indira-ji has put 150,000 people in jail. Can't she spend three days there herself?" The vote to condemn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi in the Slammer | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...future, Mary doesn't rule out a return to the med school path, and is optimistic about a shot at the coveted Rhodes Scholarship. But for now, Mary would like nothing better than to wrap up her career with a win against Yale in 'The Game...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Mary Howard: Captain and Character | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

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