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...tailback Keith Elias managed just 59 yards on 15 carries as the Tigers fell behind early and took to the air to catch up, but the real culprit was turnovers: the Tigers fumbled the ball eight times and lost five of them. Five of those turnovers came on the snap from center...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Penn Tops Princeton | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...throes of battle, rape and torture. Nor did the author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities to ghoulish capering around severed heads to whiling the day away on the rack. Even with cast and crew in high gear, the audience has to work hard at suspending the old disbelief...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Having swallowed this view of our generation whole, Newsweek and its ilk are constantly on the lookout for further signs of our generation's decline. Surely, the pent-up frustrations of these angry young people cannot last forever as harmless apathy. Some day, something's going to snap...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...photo wouldn't have come out anyway. You can't take a good picture in the dark without a flash. And a flash would have given the reporter and photographer away. The photographer begged to hold the story until he could snap a picture Thursday, when there would be a full moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Fly, Our Deepest Sympathies | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

...because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under contract to their agency; they cannot snap up a cut-fare offer from a competing line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorezilla Zaps the System | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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