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After watching his team slip all over the ragged ice, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said, "I'm not talking out of school to say that we weren't ready to play tonight...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Escape Bruins' Lair, 3-2 | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

With 10 minutes left in the second period, Bourbeau took the puck into the left corner. He was smothered by Raider defensemen, but managed to slip a pass to Young in front of the Colgate...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Undefeated Icemen Brush by Colgate, 5-2 | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

That is also a good way to describe The Far Side, an absurdist, sometimes sinister world where animals do the unnatural (i.e., act like humans) and often trump mankind along the way. A female moose, in a slip and curlers, hands the phone to her husband, sitting in his easy chair. "It's the call of the wild," she says. As a woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All Creatures Weird and Funny | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...seemed to be a day for dropped passes, as the Bulldog let the ball slip through his open arms...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

After a long completion down to the Harvard 49, Ryan and a short gain by Macauley, Ryan misfired on his next three passes, setting up a fourth down and five. He then had the ball slip out of his and sail well out of bounds, giving the ball back to the Crimson with less than a minute to play...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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