Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rude and Smooth: 1974-'75 Harvard heavy weight crew that won two national titles. So-called because of their rude behavior, shouting epithets at other boats as they put them away in the sprint at the end of the race, and smooth technique...
...long and leisurely way, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") tells the tale of Maurice Hall (James Wilby), a young Englishman who grapples with the discovery that he is, in his own words, "the Oscar Wilde sort." In early 20th century England, of course, this "sort" of behavior was serious stuff: homosexuality was illegal, punishable by imprisonment, flogging and a ruined reputation...
...Bork was done in by a tragic flaw, his behavior and that of his supporters since the floodgates opened against him has shown it to be the stuff of low tragedy, not high. First, the president tried to tie in a vote for Bork with a vote to get tough on crime, abandoning all pretense that the judge was a moderate. Then after the Judiciary Commitee voted not to recommend his nomination to the full Senate, Bork vowed to fight on, to bring his nomination onto the Senate floor to force a vote of the full Senate...
...bursar's card for HUPD, to the Black female student who must suffer the repeated abuses of racial slurs and sexual innuendo. The recent developments in the Currier House incident merely serve to confirm Black students' suspicions that the University would not issue serious punishments to curb such incorrigible behavior...
...Behavior...