Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other method of execution as humane in light of what happened in Alabama. That the state had tested the electric chair is of comparatively little importance. How does one "test" an electric chair in any case? As with any complex piece of machinery, the only real "test" is actual...
Poor acting and stage directions are occasionally forgotten because of the extreme humor of the dialogue. But the actual women in The Importance of Being Earnest, Riggs and Worthing's "excessively pretty 18-year-old ward" Cecily Cardew (Melinda McNavy), act like two adolescents in love for the first time. After Cardew leaves Algernon, whom she has just met, she says deridingly that "a momentary separation from someone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." But their costumes are distasteful and their overly innocent manners crush Wilde's lines to triteness...
Organizers of both "Enemies of ROTC" and "Opponents of ROTC" told the committee that they were not against "Friends of ROTC," which claims no connection to the actual military training organization. Instead, members said, they wanted to balance against what they perceived as an increasingly favorable attitude towards ROTC at Harvard, signaled by the recent recognition of "Friends...
...cutting taxes to Prop 21/2 levels. Cambridge probably would spread its required 15 percent property tax cut over two years, Richard C. Rossi, deputy city manager, said last week. He added that the change would only give the city more time to handle the tax cut, without changing the actual intent of Prop 21/2...
...brave new "pharmacological society" prohibition has proved to be more effective as a pricing policy than as an actual barrier to the availability of illegal drugs. And the absence of reliable information, even about such fundamental questions as the relative toxicity of the various drugs which are available, has resulted in widespread confusion and suffering. In order to clarify some of the issues raised by the use of marijuana and other forms of cannabis, the Unidentified Flying Idea (UFI) sponsored a symposium on "Marijuana and Health" last month at the Science Center...