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...Stiff competition between these 11 and at least two other athletes for the eight first-boat positions has bolstered the confidence of coach Steve Gladstone...
...Stiff checking by the Crimson defensemen, led by Doug Elliott, allowed the Blue only 18 shots on goal and kept the puck in the Bulldog's zone for most of the game...
There was a pair of old loafers, worn within a day of falling apart and mounted as casually as if their owner had just stepped out of them. And a green suit, stiff with splattered paint and age, its trousers nothing but ribbons. And bathroom sinks, garden tools, paint brushes, and the names of hundreds of people crammed onto one giant autograph book of a canvas. Last week, when Manhattan's Whitney Museum opened a retrospective exhibition of Jim Dine, 34, it was obvious that Dine's "pocket of felt objects" had spilled many times...
Larry Cetrulo, who has yet to meet any stiff competition this season, won all three of his matches against the weak Cornell saber team. Rick Tolbert, at the number two saber, won two of three bouts...
...exhibition. But the works that insist on stopping you, that freeze their image on your mind, are the quiet sculptures of stone and wood. One large majestic figure of Christ on the cross stares straight ahead, alive but unaware of the nails in his hands: his strong body, as stiff as the shape of the cross, seems beyond the ability to feel physical pain. In all the works you sense that the fear of religion is lifting from the minds of the people...