Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CORNELL--This is a team that may mature quickly and go all the way. "It takes some time to adjust from high school to college hockey," says coach Dick Bertrand, who is dressing nine freshmen. "I don't really see us getting going until the middle of January." But Darren Eliot and Bryan Hayward are back in goal, Roy Kerling, Jeff Baikie and others return up front, and Bertrand could be pleasantly surprised if his timetable is moved up and the Big Red catches fire early...
...educated herself, reading widely and becoming fluent in Spanish, French and Italian. After returning to the U.S. in 1929, she studied philosophy under Bertrand Russel at Columbia, where the two became fast friends and weekly dinner partners. But Fenwick didn't appreciate Russell's anti-American sentiments, and the friendship soon ended...
COLGATE 30, CORNELL 20: I like a girl at Colgate. I hate a guy at Cornell (no, it's not Dick Bertrand). Throw in the fact that these upstate-New York rivals always have rock-'em sock-'em scuffles, and such intangibles become important, because otherwise it's too close to call. I really like this girl at Colgate, so make it Colgate...
...Lorenzo the Magnificent, which he has been researching for more than a decade. In his book The Straw and the Grain, he wrote, "If I had the time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch out and, in short, to dream with...
Around the time they discovered blue jeans, Europeans discovered another American invention, the open road, and gave the genre some local twists, such as the persistence of class conceits. Bertrand Blier (Going Places) and Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) established the itinerary; now Diane Kurys, whose Peppermint Soda took a fresh, funny look at growing up Jewish in Paris, follows that road. Cocktail Molotov is set in May 1968, when French students and workers virtually shut down their country. Alas for Anne (Elise Caron), that is the moment she chooses to defy her bourgeois mother and take off with...