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...women's ice hockey team passed the acid test of dawn practices and Sunday morning games this winter as a first-year club sport, and Coach Joe Bertagna looks forward to Level Two (varsity) status next winter...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: A Cold Draft for Curry | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...fall on its face, by any means; but it comes close enough to make one wonder at the disparity between the production and the book. It's hard to figure out quite what the problem is, but as the play moves into its third hour, it begins to dawn on you. Basically, this is two plays, with two not-quite-linked plots put on either side of the intermission...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: ...Two Plays in One | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...Wednesday, May 3, solar activists across the nation will begin to celebrate "Sun Day" to mark what some of them call the "dawn of the solar age." Their aim is to convince more politicians, financiers and manufacturers that sun power has a glowing future. The celebrations, financed by organizations as diverse as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Department of Energy and the United Auto Workers, will begin with songs of praise to the rising sun in Maine and include talks and solar-power demonstrations in just about every state. In a speech at Golden, Colo., on Sun Day, President Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Sun Starts to Rise on Solar | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...lose his cutting edge. At 31, he is a dedicated juicer who can put away a bottle of Stolichnaya a night and a gun-wielding roisterer. He is also an attentive father and melancholiac composer who works in fits and starts in the short hours before dawn, turning out his strange songs and working occasionally on "my long-boasted-about but seldom-heard symphony"-all on the Steinway concert grand that stands in the living room of his modest Los Angeles house. Zevon seems to be living out a myth of ruinous romantic excess that is both self-perpetuating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...colleagues working for more flamboyant directors in the Italian film industry, cinematographer Masini avoids using flashy camera angles and other distracting legerdemain with the lens. Masini instead unobtrusively records the countryside, focusing on the lush greenery of a Sardinian forest or the evanescent ambers of a pasture at dawn. And at several points in the film, Masini is content to allow events to speak for themselves, permitting the actors to move in and out of the picture while the camera remains fixed in one place. In this way the cinematographer quietly succeeds in imbuing the visual dimension of Padre, Padrone...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: The Sum of the Parts... | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

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