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...kind of knew there was a guy behind me," Ernst recalled. "I just tried to zig a little bit toward the flag...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Importance of Being Ernst | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...zig came in time, the foot tap just made his end zone entrance a mite less graceful. The 69-yard pass play provided the winning points, and the victory celebration was underway. Ivy Football Standings Ivy Overall W L T W L T Dartmouth 4 0 0 4 3 0 Penn 4 0 1 5 1 1 Harvard 3 1 1 4 2 1 Brown 2 2 1 2 4 1 Princeton 2 3 0 3 4 0 Columbia 1 3 0 1 5 1 Cornell 0 3 1 0 6 1 Yale...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Importance of Being Ernst | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...scholars suggested that the party too had to change. There should no longer be one total authority compelling every unit of the state, from commune to city to Peking, to zig or zag every time the party zigged or zagged. The party's function is to lead. The government has another function: to keep order. Enterprise has yet another function, from village field to factory floor: to produce. Now the entire country was living through experiments, said Huan, trying to separate party apparatus from governing apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...shooting of John Kennedy and flew into an orbit of conspiratorial delirium that made the flakiest assassination theories seem like whitewash. Richert's film starts off from Condon, streamlines the plot and adds a few new quirks. Nineteen years after the event, Nick Kegan (Bridges) follows a zig-zag trail of clues, threats and intuitions to find out who killed his President brother. But who will help him? His father (John Huston), a wily priapic megamillionaire who lopes through his several palaces in flaming red Jockey shorts? Nick's sultry girlfriend (Belinda Bauer again), who may work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Power Plays | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Leroy Horsemouth Wallace plays himself in the lead role with the shuffling nonchalance of a heroic anti-hero who knows things will work his way. He is not particularly attractive with a zig-zagging beard and untamed hair that he buries under foppish hats. But he steps stridently when he is angry, bends his joints with a marvelous fluidity when he is gleeful, and rarely ceases wriggling long enough...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Soothing the Savage Beast | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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