Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty report released last spring recommended that departments, with especially small numbers of women instructors exert "a special effort" to attract "the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates...
...various moth and butterfly larvae. It, too, should be applied early. Another new experimental spray spreads a virus that afflicts the gypsies with fatal wilt disease, so called because the dying caterpillar shrivels into a kind of inverted-V shape. More diabolical are traps scented with sex lures to attract male moths. Scientists have also been distributing different types of insects-wasps, flies, beetles-that prey on gypsy moths at various stages in their life cycle...
...Burns by Veteran Actor John Randolph (who as a real-life Bronx correspondent for the New York Post once reported the burning-down of his family home-"and rewrite got the facts wrong"). Alas, though the pay ($300 a week) is relatively generous, the Santa Fe Festival Theater can attract few middle-aged supporting actors. Thus timeworn newsroom veterans are played by men mostly in their 30s who appear to be in their 20s. That casting undoes a work as grubbily detailed as The Front Page...
While the few political activists attract headlines, other Maryknollers have continued to labor quietly with Latin America's poor. Among them...
...Elvis's bodyguards. Some people hate him for making money off of a dead man. Some people think it's a public service. There are no fewer than two hundred people at any given time, milling around the limousine. The car is in a Ford dealership to attract crowds. It's there for three days. No one will say how much it's costing. Everyone is strangely quiet. It is a kind of strange wake, kind of a wake by proxy. Four years after the fact, it's still sort of a relic thing--a visit to the rock...