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Brown was led as usual, by its one two punch of Michelle Smith and Donna Yalle Smith the 1982-3 Ivy Player of the Year, led the Bruins with 27 points while Yaffe, last year's Player of the year, added...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Brown Edges Cagers; Crimson Pushes Champs | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Elmore Leonard gives this piece of business a nice wrinkle by delaying the punch line for eleven pages. Don't ask how; the ploy works like the rim shot of a drummer perking up a lounge comic's routine. Leonard may not be the tightest plotter on the popular thriller circuit, but he is the writer who pays closest attention to getting the tacky details right. Bribing a night clerk with a greasy cheese-steak sub is something that could happen only in the Philadelphia-South Jersey axis of ethnic indigestibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleaze Factors Glitz by Elmore Leonard | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...false AI Joison Black face mask" and do what is right. "why did he not say" "False Amos'n Andy Black face masks"? He could have even included Gene Kelly or, generically, the Black minstrel show era. NO, these other variations on the them don't have the punch when you want to intimate, subconsciously perhaps, that a Jewish singer indulged in a form of entertainment not generally considered demeaning in Jolson's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson's Visit: Sins of Omission | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...with 17 on the senson, and three-time lvy Player of the Work Cor, with 10 provide the Brulns with a sedring "Punch dedly enough to keep any defen on full...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Peaking Icemen Nose Brown, 3-2; Crimson, Bruins Share League Lead | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...they are willing to lug along Melitta's 4-lb. automatic drip machine ($40), complete with filters, creamer and sugar bowl. The Take-along Desk Drawer ($40) fits tiny office supplies in a lightweight nylon case--a mere 5 1/2 in. by 9 in. Contents include a paper punch, scissors, 6-ft. tape measure, screwdriver and a telescoping presentation pointer for meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Small Comforts for the Road | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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