Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all eight Ivy teams in league action for the first time since opening weekend, there was bound to be a major shakeup in the league standings...
This weekend certainly had no shortage of close games. Besides the dramatic 13-6 Harvard (4-2, 2-1 Ivy) victory over Princeton (2-4, 0-3 Ivy), Saturday's Ivy League action featured two games which came down to onside kicks in the final minutes...
...quartet and a Puccinified version of Paper Doll), Bolcom has succeeded in smelting many disparate styles into a tightly unified idiom all his own. There are times when the openhearted lyricism of a Leonard Bernstein would have been welcome, but the lean, laconic score keeps the action moving, lending Miller's kitchen-table naturalism a freshening touch of poetry. Add in Josephson's star-quality performance as Eddie, the exemplary staging of Frank Galati (who directed Broadway's Ragtime) and Santo Loquasto's angular set--the Brooklyn Bridge as painted by Franz Kline--and you get a no-nonsense tragedy...
...their average pay is slightly lower than the St. Louis County average. But it's notably below that of peer schools in some other suburbs in the county, which are luring some of the best teachers and prospects away from Webster. Just a month ago, a 14-day job action, in which teachers refused to participate in after-school activities to protest their paltry pay scale, ended with a tentative agreement that earmarks $5 million more for teacher salaries over the next three years...
...worries school administrators. The week before, Matt says, he asked his Latin teacher, "What happens if you make a threat to kill a teacher? Do you get suspended or expelled?" He says he likes to play mind games and was just curious, but school officials were quick to take action. They immediately called Matt's psychiatrist and his mother and asked his teachers to keep an eye on him. An administrator told him, Matt says, "If I threaten anyone or make any 'I'm going to kill myself' statements, I would be suspended with no questions asked until I could...