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...neither did Dartmouth, a fact which surprised absolutely no one. Harvard, you see, team members' semi-denials to the contrary, is good. As in GOOD...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Four Crimson Squads Take Care of Dartmouth | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...exhibitionist style cloys, because as pure documentary F for Fake has such potential. Welles tracks deHory down in Ibiza, a picturesque Spanish island, where the forger has given up his life of crime for a jolly semi-retirement. (He no longer sells his fakes--Picassos, Modiglianis, Matisses and Van Dongen--but still occupies a villa provided by an art dealer who has turned a handsome middleman's profit on deHory's imitations...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...surgery early in 1973 for implantation of an artificial heart valve. He came out of the anesthesia with partial paralysis of his right arm. The pity was that it ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only of his own works but also of Bach, Purcell and Mozart. His graceful, impassioned version of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten: 1913-76 | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Basketball was downplayed at City since then, until Layne worked his way back into good grace and led his charges to the semi-finals of the NCAA Division Three championships last year. The squad's mainsprings are 6 ft. 6 in. center Hugo Bonar and spunky guard Rich Silvera. Silvera, a De Witt Clinton grad, is just one of a talented batch of homebreds playing in the Met area...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Big Town's Comeback | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Dutra attributed the delay in the government decision to slow action by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a semi-independent group of vaccine experts with considerable power over the disease control center's policy...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: UHS Urges Second Dose Of Vaccine | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

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