Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest growth has come since 1977, when Graham Allison, an academic with a flair for salesmanship, became dean. Since then, the faculty has increased from 12 to 85 and the student body from 200 to 700 degree students, along with 600 nondegree students. The school's modern red brick complex on the banks of the Charles River contains nine research centers, ranging from the Center for Science and International Affairs to the Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy. A new center for press, politics and public policy is headed by former Newsman Marvin Kalb...
...tennis racquet, ball and sneakers: $150-$300, depending on whether you chose Pro-Keds over Reebok super-insolated Andres Jarryd hard-surface court shoes. Price for basketball and sneakers: $40-$100, depending on whether you buy a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar galvanized rubber ball or a Greg Kite reinforced-brick ball...
...sets are excellent, whether they be the jungle behind the movie screen or the moving grocery shelves. Costumes are also impressive and range from two outfitted baseball teams to the dancing pieces of brick wall. The music, written by Harvard undergraduate composers, works well...
...many dance recitals, there is a patchwork plot tying the dances together. The show follows six children around after school: one runs away from her fighting parents, one strikes out in Little League, one (now, we must make some concessions to this storyline) is harassed by chunks of a brick wall that turn into living beings after she has shined their shapes onto the wall with an overhead projector, two are frightened away by a store with dancing groceries, and one is drawn into the events of a movie he is watching. Naturally, the six dejected children band together...
...equivalent of hitting the broad side of a barn with a brick or catching a softball with a fish...