Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have been repudiated by the scientific community, like those of former...
...Harvard swimming coaches in recent years, the announcement of diving scores has become music to their ears, meaning that it's time to sit back and watch the points pile up on the scoreboard in the column under the big...
...Hacketts, Coopers, Raikulas, and Coglins score the big points and get most of the headlines at a meet like the Easterns; but the strong performances of Gauthier, Seelen and the others proved decisive in finally bringing the Eastern title to Cambridge...
Cornelia Ravenal's Out of the Reach of Children attempts to draw us back to those last wonderful days when we were lords of creation, when we were high school seniors, and then, more ambitiously, tries to prepare us for the big bad world of shattered high school dreams. Its occasionally inspired script, the generally excellent performances and the cast's awesome energy level paper over the flaws that occasionally obscure Ravenal's views of times past and future...