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...plays later, a diving grab by halfback Andy Bell finished a perfectly executived play-action pass, bringing the ball to the Cornell 43. Bell's 39 yards receiving sparked a 13-play, 82-yard scoring drive, which ate up five minutess on the clock and gave Harvard a 7-0 lead...
TEXAS STATE FAIR, Dallas. Grab your 10-gallon hat for the largest (1989 attendance: 3.5 million) and splashiest state fair in the U.S. Texas-scale events include laser shows, pig races, college football in the Cotton Bowl and the entire touring company of the musical Cats. Through...
...most outspoken individuals at the session were not undergraduates, but local members of the Spartacus Youth League. They called the U.S. military presence in the Middle East a "naked oil grab" organized by "sell-out bureaucrats...
...from below and be coordinated with a vastly reduced administrative center. The only problem is that the old chain of command has all but collapsed, and nothing has arisen to take its place. The President's decrees have been largely ignored by the country's restive republics, determined to grab as much authority as they can from Moscow. Leading the revolt has been the country's largest republic, Russia, and Gorbachev's longtime political rival, Boris Yeltsin...
...proliferation of overworked characters and formulas: idealistic lawyers, precocious five-year-olds and family shows with interchangeably generic titles (The Family Man, Married People and Sons and Daughters -- try telling them apart). It is also the hollowness of the supposedly innovative stuff. The game this season is to grab the audience's attention, to make shows stand out from the crowd in some way. But the swatches of fuchsia and bright orange can't disguise the dingy old furniture underneath...