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With a wry smile, Preston Davenport 78, looks over the dwindling crowd. In 35 Octobers here, his Ayrshires and Holsteins have won a slew of blue ribbons, anc he has come to know a thing or two abou fairgoers. "Everyone has been saying how much they are going to miss it," he says quietly. "But, you'll see. In a month or so they'll be onto something else." That is the comfort of progress-and its regrettable price. -By Joelle Attinger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: A Fair Goes Dark | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Featuring a slew of talented freshmen recruits and an experienced rookie coach, the Harvard women's tennis team just may come of age in the 1981 fall season...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Courting an Ivy Championship | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...encyclopedia she turned to next was not too helpful; printed before a slew of African nations won independence in the 60s, it still discussed Gabon as a colony. "What it did say was not very comforting," she recalls. "Something about a prevalence of snakes and large cats...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Monkeys and Snakes | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Dennis is one of a slew of Harvard officials and professors who may have to seek private funding if Congress approves Reagan's proposal to cut the NEH's $169 million 1982 budget by about half, with equally sharp cutbacks to come...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Harvard Prepares for Humanities Cuts | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

...French labelled it film noir, but coining the phrase was about as close as Gallic sensibilities could ever get to it. No Frenchman could truly understand a city like L.A., and that, metaphorically at least, was what film noir was all about. The term was used to describe a slew of films, the likes of Double Indemnity or The Killers. which were stepchildren of earlier gangster movies but which now had a peculiarly fetid air to them--a heedless, languishing cynicism. Noir heroes always talked like they'd been to hell and back and found it was nothing compared...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

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