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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staccato strokes. By now Maria is rich, established, with a house in the country. Oswald is dead, having bequeathed all to the Brauns. Herman has been home for a day and they are preparing to make love. "I gave you everything," Maria tells Herman. "My whole life. Got a match?" Mistakenly, she left the gas on. Boom. Both go up in flames, a tragi-comic resolution to the whole affair. After evincing such uncanny survival skills, Maria Braun is undone by a measly cigarette. In the background Fassbinder adds the last little fillip of irony: we hear over the radio...
Fouts, who was booed nearly as often as he was sacked during the Chargers' long wallow in the cellar, credits his success to his coaches and the Chargers' current crop of receivers, the match of any in the N.F.L. San Diego's offensive line is good enough, at last, to limit Fouts' once steady pounding to a meager 13 sacks in 10 games. "I like seeing a team effort be successful, and I like to be in charge of that effort." says Fouts, who receives an estimated $200,000 a year for his efforts. "There...
Romantic Comedy is one long credibility gap. As comedy it is flush with flip badinage but unilluminated by genuine humor. As romance it is a verbal sparring match with mighty few emo tional clinches. There is no discernible chemical affinity between these two antiseptic people...
Because of this attitude, the Government major finds it particularly satisfying to keep the opposition scoreless. So far this season, the Crimson has accumulated eight shut outs in 16 games, including the match against the University of Massachusetts in the Easterns when Harvard became the first team in two years to keep the Minutemen off the scoreboard...
During the Harvard women's soccer team's dual match against the University of Massachusetts a month ago, Crimson coach Bob Scalise looked a little anxious when Minuteman halfback Patricia Mattoon cleared the ball from her zone. As the UMass bench began to cheer for their teammate shouting her nickname, "Toona-Toona-Toona," Scalise turned to his assistant coach and said, "I should make Sara Fischer cover that halfback so we'd have "Toona-Fisch...