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Peter Mark Schifter has directed with the breathless tenderness of a Herschel Weinberger, though with considerably more precision. He keeps the trolley cars on their respective tracks, accelerating entrances and exits so that a group of seven is, suddenly, two, and the sanctity of an emotional confrontation is inevitably, often...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

Stenmark only rarely competes in the downhill; its headlong plunge does not appeal to his sense of precision. He is strictly a specialist in the slalom and the giant slalom, fascinated by their intricate swoops and switchbacks. At Innsbruck four years ago, Stenmark fell in the slalom and had to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Stunning Show, After All | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

The Bush campaign is under the near total control of former Governor Hugh Gregg, who ran Reagan's campaign four years ago. The "Ayatullah Gregg," as Bush staffers call him, brooks no interference as he keeps the candidate moving with the precision of Mussolini's trains. "We work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In New Hampshire, They're Off! | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

The cranky bushy-haired spectator delivered his opinion before his sister--competed in the ice dancing preliminaries, where she later placed seventh. Reluctant to admit his sister was the best ice dancer in the United States, he was anxious to talk about how hard it is for American skaters to...

Author: By Suzanner R. Spring, | Title: Truths Her Brother Told Me | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

Freshman Jim Turner retaliated for Harvard 1:12 later, converting Greg Olson's precision cross-cease feed for his fifth goal of the year.

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icemen Top Terriers For Pot Consolation | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

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