Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike, shoestring performance in a provincial opera house...
...action has varied. Initially, the president recommended cuts totalling $19 million, slating the college of urban development, a public policy college, a science college, and the nursing school for elimination. In addition, he targeted the university's general education areas of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences to bear a large burden of the cuts...
Today's game is also important because it can easily trigger a three-game sweep. Penn, as one professional baseball-watcher put it, "just doesn't have it this year," and the fact that their starters have completed just two games of 21 seems to bear him out. The Quakers are young, inexperienced and rebuilding. A sweep would leave Harvard 4-2 and in good shape, and put some pressure on frontrunners--Cornell, Navy and Yale--who haven't forgotten last year's stretch...
...Caliban, Staggerice and John Henry. Jadine becomes the flip side of a stereotype portraying light-skinned, long haired Black women. Her-Blackness and her womanhood are two gifts of beauty and richness to Morrison. Black women give birth to legends; their ghosts live forever as long as skins bear traces of this mystical parentage...
...more naughty than nautical. Aboard Sunward, which steams only 380 nautical miles in the course of four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even the popular drinks bear names that would turn an old salt's stomach: Virgin's Kiss, Coconut Cooler, Jamaican Dreams...