Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, gravidity is back in trendy grace, but often at the expense of the traditional, luxurious confinement. The new attitude is one of aggressive athleticism. Long hours at the office is only one way to be belligerently preggers. Even new fashions help the mother-to-be (see box). Women run, scuba dive and fence, sometimes against the advice of their doctors, while carrying a child. One New York periodontist in her late 30s refused to stop riding with her local hunt club when she became pregnant. She merely traded in her form-fitting "hunting pink" jacket...
...coming! The Germans are coming! Coming to financial success in their own movie market, to artistic maturity on theater screens around the world, to terms with a painful historical past. In the past few years the German film industry has become what Variety calls "one of the healthiest box offices in Europe," with annual ticket sales of about $450 million. Much of that business, as in any other European country, went to Hollywood entertainment, especially Disney and James Bond. But in 1981 there were significant local advances. A low-budget expose of youthful degeneracy in Berlin, Christiane F., became...
...this from the "Famous Relatives" Department: Did you know that senior hockey player SCOTT POWERS' older sister, Deborah, is the attractive brunette playing racquetball on the cover of the Wheaties box? And did you know that junior football safety JOHN RICE'S father Greg, held the world record in the two-mile distance for over twelve years starting in the late 1930s? Rice--a Notre Dame alum--was rejected for the draft for hernia problems just days before he blazed to the new mark...
...with 5 21 showing on the clock, Terrier blueliner Nancy Mike was sent to the penalty box for hauling down Hurley as she was about to skate in alone on Whitcomb Eleven seconds into the ensuing power play. Hurley passed to Ward from behind the net, and the Yardling banged it home...
...team's most serious shortcoming is its "weak inside game." All motion under the boards and inside the key is often forced and impulsive, and a simple lay-up is a struggle in itself. In addition, Harvard--partly due to a lack of height--has been unable to box out under the boards and come up with crucial rebounds...