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Tharp never seems to complete a movement. She cuts short most gestures, pushes one into the next, gives her dancers only fragments. Her company responds with an attitude of posed nonchalance, letting phrases slip by, shaking them off with a shrug...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Twyla Sparkles, Boston Ballet Fizzles | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...deckers and empty lots where our age-mates, back from the service, are pounding the pavements, where young women strangely haggard work the night shift and Dunkin Donuts, where men with lunchpails punch in at Finast and Fenton Shoe, where old women on their way to our dining halls slip off gaseous buses onto the ice before dawn? What are we doing here? How shall we live? Are we somehow part of their burden? Will we always stand over against them...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Above The Battle: The Price We Pay | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...match quickly started to slip away from Harvard. Bill Snyder (150 lbs.), the fourth man to start in that trouble spot this year, lost 5-2, giving U Mass the lead. Then, New England champion Blom dominated Jim Corcoran for a 7-2 victory...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Bow to UMass; Fail to Build Early Lead | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

Most of us will reluctantly trade film-going for exams this weekend, but for the lucky few who can slip away they should look elsewhere for movies...

Author: By Jeff Flanders, | Title: THE SCREEN | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

...freshmen let the game slip away with ten minutes remaining. Two simultaneous highsticking penalties against B.C. gave Harvard a two-man advantage but the Crimson was unable to put a shot on net for 1:44 of the two minutes...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: B.C. Outlasts Freshmen, 7-5 In Game Marred by Penalties | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

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