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Sailors on the Iranian gunboats sailing southwest from Farsi Island on Thursday proved far less prudent. They had been under U.S. surveillance ever since their rendezvous off the island. One of the American observers tracking the quartet of vessels was an Army pilot in an unarmed OH-6 Hughes helicopter, running quietly at 800 ft. above the water and peering at the boats through an infrared night-vision scope. He had no trouble identifying the small craft. The largest was a 150-ft.-long Corvette, a steel-hulled boat that could carry a crew of 140. There was a Swedish...
...regain the league title it lost, for the first time in eight years, last year. The Crimson--which finished second in the Ancient Eight behind Yale--had a hand in the Lions' downfall in '86, pulling off an early-season 4-1 shocker on the strength of a quartet of Catliff goals...
Gershwin tended to be facile in his attitude toward classical music: "I'd like to write a quartet some day," he mused. "But it will be something simple, like Mozart." Even today, when the rich harmonies of A Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even...
...Tuck humanity. The old switcheroo has a nice impact, but the film's most intelligent pleasures come from the filigree work. Dante packs his movie as if it were the knapsack of a ten-year-old running away from home -- with comic-book notions, weird windup toys and a quartet of villains as grotesquely giddy as the Garbage Pail Kids...
...their efforts this past weekend, the Harvard quartet of Marchok, Chenevy, Baxter and Curtin earns this week's spotlight...