Word: 1920s
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...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...some slambang special effects. But as Chen Kaige shows in the humid, tumid Temptress Moon, image is all. Reuniting the stars (Hong Kong's Leslie Cheung and the mainland's Gong Li) of his 1993 Farewell My Concubine, Chen paints a glamorous portrait of drugs and decadence in 1920s China. The leaders of today's China, addicted to the old narcotic of Maoism, may have seen the film as an unflattering mirror of themselves; a year after its completion, Temptress Moon is still banned...
Historical records are incomplete, but it is believed that the last time a Harvard player advanced this far in a national tourney was during the 1920s or 1930s...
Randomization has a history dating back to the 1920s, when President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, wrote that an unfortunate segregation would result from students being able to choose their own houses. Lowell envisioned each house as a microcosm of the College, and not as small, separate institutions with their own identities...
...that Monday's Crimson, J. Anthony Lewis '48 called Yale weekend a throwback to the 1920s, citing "Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue...crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria and drugstore around the Square...flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, wrapping themselves around the flagpoles...