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...five-foot tall replica will supply drinkable city water to thirsty Yardlings, said John Lach, Radcliffe's director of physical planning. A 10-second timer will simulate pumping action, negating the strenuous exercise once required to quench students' thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repairs on College Pump Begun Yesterday in Yard | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...Moiseyev dancers offer a kinetic excitement that ought to be the envy of dance companies everywhere. The bodies are lithe, handsome and superbly conditioned, without a saggy, stereotypical babushka in sight, and they move through Moiseyev's short, repetitive kaleidoscopic patterns with elan and assurance. The headstands, the five-foot leaps, the tumbles and twirls are unfailingly impressive, and the music, a wildly eclectic pastiche of Soviet folk songs, Strauss waltzes and Mussorgsky tone poems, rattles along briskly under the baton of Conductor Anatoli Gusj...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Spit and Polish, Braids and Boots | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...pair of autographed basketball sneakers from Celtic star M.L. Carr couldn't have been a better present for a five-foot two-inch former Brookline High basketball player...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Dukakis Celebrates 52nd Birthday; Fundraiser Kicks-Off Reelection Bid | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

INSIDE THE INSTITUTE of Contemporary Art (ICA) a five-foot high black and white photograph of a cat--a simple shot pasted together from 16 smaller rectangular prints--hangs beside several photographs of desert rock brushed over with turpentine and enamel. Downstairs a collage of images made from videotape of the Mary Decker-Zola Budd Olympic confrontation faces Ku Khux Klan members garbed in colorful, hooded uniforms...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Picture Perfect | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

Rough playing conditions worked to Harvard's advantage in the late stages, as the choppy, divot-filled penalty circle made. Dartmouth's crossing passes bouncy and unpredictable. A five-foot hill on the southeast corner of the field further complicated matters. And rains before and during the contest slowed the ball and caused some unintentional acrobatics displays...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Triumph, 1-0 | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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