Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Epps first delivered a brief speech on the importance and history of Harvard's racial and cultural diversity, saying house life should be an integrating force...
...practice, the intense young coach makes sure his players keep that outlook. Beginning each practice with a brief speech that outlines the team's recent games and its goals for the next week, Freed is stern and tough, but at the same time hopeful. He tries to keep the work in perspective, peppering his sometimes tough Vince Lombardi language with jokes. In practice, Freed the storyteller sometimes plays Freed the prankster. At a recent Tuesday evening session, Freed called on freshman Jake Bassett to entertain the team with a song...
Loews Nickelodeon. 606 Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square. 424-1500. Through Thursday, Oct. 22. Of Mice and Men at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. Gas, Food, Lodging at 1:10, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 p.m. A Brief History of Time at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Bladerunner at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55 and 10:15 p.m. Bob Roberts...
...part, Gore was long criticized for being stiff-necked and arrogant, a policy wonk without humility or a sense of proportion. His brief and unsuccessful run for President in 1988 was seen by some as an example of overweening ambition. Gore's recent book, Earth in the Balance, an environmentalist manifesto and call to arms that includes the idea of banishing the internal-combustion engine "in, say, 25 years," has been blasted by Republicans as elitist nonsense. Quayle told a group of produce farmers in Fresno, California, last week that "with Clinton and Gore, you can say goodbye to water...
...John Adams, the first occupant, had a brief, cold and unhappy time in the new White House, and his dyspeptic ghost seemed to linger there for years. Thomas Jefferson groused about "a splendid misery." Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre." Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nobody lives there. They just come and go." And Harry Truman called it "the great white jail" but loved the place for its grace and meaning...