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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...year history of the Panthers. Last week, I watched Penrith halfback Greg Alexander help his team qualify for the Grand Final by ripping through the defending champion Canberra Raiders' defense in a 30-12 win in extra time. Alexander scored two tries and seven goals in an impressive 22-point performance for someone described as "not being able to win the big ones...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: Exposing a Closed-Minded U.S. Fan to Aussie Sports | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...Republican side, the Globe poll gave attorney William C. Sawyer '51 an eight-point lead over former Metropolitan District Commissioner Guy Carbone, who dropped his gubernatorial bid earlier in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Who in Statewide Races | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

Marketing, like nature, abhors a vacuum, so the real question is what took them so long. In November Life Savers will introduce packages of bite-size "holes" in an attempt to add to its domination among hard candies. Only a killjoy would point out that they're not really the holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks, We Needed These Citations | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Neither version is completely true. More to the point, neither is dramatically convincing. The febrile mind and bodily functions of the famous dead are not off limits to a novelist, especially one of Garcia Marquez's talents. Yet in this novel his fabulist's imagination is overburdened by research. Historical names, dates and events frequently interrupt the mood that has been so carefully prepared to characterize Bolivar's last ride. True, Garcia Marquez unhorses a legend distorted by politics and patinaed by sentimentality, but Bolivar did a pretty good job of it himself. Schoolchildren may know him as the George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Plowed the Sea | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...Away Party, set to Bob Wills' country-and-western songs. As the dancers, who have never performed together before, try to get the dynamics of the piece into their bones, Merle Haggard's voice drawls out Yearning and its songbird over and over. The steps speed up; at one point a square dance veers scarily into a frantic game of musical chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Mark and Misha Show | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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