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...Crimson played a sluggish first half and Northeastern took full advantage. Playing faster and neater field hockey, the Huskies allowed the Crimson no breaks...
...when an unlikely escape can be plausible or when violence must instead turn into calamity. Downriver (Houghton Mifflin; 210 pages; $15.95) offsets those virtues with a plot that, like other recent work of his, relies unsatisfyingly on impersonation and concealed identity, and places conveniently offstage his investigator's neater tricks of digging up information or penetrating a security barrier...
...next year's sermons--and wardrobe--be even neater...
...militant labor movement that had shut down numerous factories, she issued orders for the police to take down illegal strike barricades immediately. She castigated the military mutineers who sparked the current crisis with their nearly successful August uprising. "They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield." As she issued rapid- fire orders for road repair, garbage collection, telephone-line maintenance and an end to the constant power brownouts that afflict the capital, her listeners interrupted the speech with at least 27 rounds of applause...
Echoing the old adage that girls are neater than boys, Gordon says, "Guys go for weeks on end without putting sheets on their beds and girls have all their fuzzy comforters and pillows...