Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Harvard offensive attack will light up the scoreboard if Yohe and Co. can pick apart the Big Green defense, Harvard's defense, after allowing only 241 yards against Cornell, may have begun to mature at the right time...
...unmoved. Technology can make everything seem too technical: slow motion slows emotions until they seem unreal; instant replays replay the instant again and again until it means less and less, like Warhol's soup cans. Carl Lewis in flight, Jackie Joyner-Kersee in extremis are things of beauty: taken apart on the picture tube, they lose all contact with the natural...
...night Elvis died, one of his fans came home to find that her Presley records had mysteriously melted. That same evening, a couple discovered that the Elvis statue in their den had inexplicably broken apart. Years later, a police officer tracked his missing son to Los Angeles through information supplied in a dream by Elvis. The singer's face suddenly materialized in the wood paneling of a woman's pantry door. His voice counseled an overweight woman to lay off junk food. The late star, a frequent hospital visitor, has offered words of comfort to a woman giving birth...
...long. There are moments when Bogosian looks uncertain, when a gesture looks forced or when he seems as if he's about to break character completely. One hopes that Bogosian's stay at the ART will allow him to see when the various bits fall apart or fail to sustain themselves...
This still leaves plenty to argue about. To what extent is Government spending -- on highways, on science research, on education, on health -- a form of investment rather than present consumption? (Answer: a lot, but less than in the past and not enough to excuse the present deficit.) Apart from deficit reduction, do we need new policies to encourage savings and investment in the private sector? (Answer: perhaps, but be suspicious of both conservative schemes that amount to new tax breaks for rich folks and liberal schemes that amount to Government officials trying to play business better than businessmen.) Are trade...