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...Zeus sent down sorrow as well as joy to the Crimson team that afternoon, as the same rain that blessed the Radcliffe win also fell on top gun Eleanor Apthorp, who was absent from the meet, with a severe case of the flu that kept her bedridden for the rest of the season. Briefly, the day symbolized the frustrating and rather shaky beginnings of Radcliffe's first cross-country season...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Radcliffe Harriers Finish Strong Premiere Season | 11/12/1976 | See Source »

Searching for a pattern in the disappearances, South House resident Laurie Hartzland '79 noted "they don't seem to take anything wet." All of the articles vanished while owners were absent during the drying half of the wash cycle...

Author: By Alice Weil, | Title: Thief Pilfers Bras In Laundry Room At South House | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

...disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse of a stag reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...stopped in at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel recently, exactly eight years after the Democratic National Convention. The Yippies and their banner--a Vietcong flag--were noticeably absent. In their stead was another party and another banner: the American Independent Party and its emblem, a large American eagle--made of styrofoam...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: The Soap Box, The Ballot Box, The Jury Box and The Cartridge Box | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...deadly new weapon called the "splurge gun." Fat Sam, lacking this latest in weaponry, must defend his holdings with that most ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little brawn and some badly needed brains. Bugsy, however, is frequently absent from duty, since he has taken to managing a heavyweight prizefighter named Leroy (Paul Murphy). Bugsy has high hopes that his boy's fistic skills will help raise a stake to take Blousey to Tinseltown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesars in Never-Never Land | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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