Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quad residents are a breed apart...
...Engineers (20-11-1, 13-7-1 ECAC) are an anomaly. After winning the NCAA Championship in 1985, Mike Addesa's crew got off to a fine start last year, only to fall apart late in the season with a loss to lowly Dartmouth and an 11-0 shellacking at the hands of Harvard the next night. RPI went on to finish fourth in the ECAC and quickly bowed out of the playoffs. The Engineers still possess some talent, but will be hard pressed to improve on their '86 finish. Gone are scorers John Carter and Mark Jooris, as well...
...Apart from Reagan's loss of face, there seems little reason to be particularly satisfied about the prospects for a resurgence of the Democratic Party. The Democrats did not triumph because they were able to generate a set of issues or to provide an alternative agenda. Their eight-seat gain in the Senate came from a string of races that were decided on local issues. In almost every tightly contested state the local hero won. The outcome Tuesday certainly demonstrated that the voters' newfound attachment to the Grand Old Party may run only as deep as their attachment to Reagan...
Thus emerged the chief form of American museum art in the early '60s: The Watercolor That Ate the Art World. Of course, one could hardly come right out with it and say the works of Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (quite apart from the thousands of yards of lyric acrylic on unprimed duck done by their many forgotten imitators) were basically huge watercolors. But there was little in the soak-stain methods of color-field painting that did not seek and repeat watercolor effects. The big difference lay in the size, the curtness and (sometimes) the grandeur...
...sided with Enrile against the President in a Cabinet dispute over when the next presidential election should be held. With Enrile headed toward open revolt and Laurel fast on his heels, nervous questions began to emerge about the future of Aquino's eight-month-old government. Is it coming apart at the seams? Or is the Philippines enjoying a feisty demonstration of democracy in action...