Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orleans for three centuries. ∙ Before writing his impressions of Micronesia for NATION, Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss made a 17,500-mile, 17-day odyssey through America's vast aqueous empire. He had first visited the Pacific during the early '70s while commuting to two brief tours in Viet Nam and remembered the islands as "a frontier where tedium and pleasure competed for men's souls." Those territories today, he found, are suddenly facing very modern social and economic problems...
...choices are preceeded by a paragraph explaining the "advantage of having the limited breakfast." To the side of each response, a brief sentence explains the implication of adopting that choice. According to the survey, opting for hot breakfasts implies "shorter breakfast hours plus an additional charge for board" while continuing the limited breakfasts means longer hours and no increase in board rates...
...with his eyes bulging from his head in a passionate glare, impersonates a Valentinoesque Spanish dancer clinging to a sultry female partner. The couple's exaggerated motions, sexy facial expressions, and intensely serious gestures are indeed funny. The scene shows Wilder in his best comic form, and in that brief moment, the movie almost lives up to the expectations created by its title. But the remainder of the film never fulfills its promise. This sequence is, for both Wilder and the audience, merely a dream. As Wilder snaps out of his fantasy and back to the reality...
...After a brief discussion, the conspirators agreed that just one call would not be enough. It would be too easy for the tiger mentors to roll over and go back to sleep. They decided instead to leave both a 4 a.m. and a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call for the Princetonians, thereby insuring that they would be wide awake and ready for the day's important events...
Amidst the excitement generated by the new corps of human hydroplanes who inhabit the IAB this year, one man's role in rebuilding the Harvard swim program seems to have been overlooked. That man is Pete Orschiedt, who in his brief one year stint as hard coach last year managed to round up all but one of the red-hot freshmen who have thrust Harvard onto the national swimming scene this season...