Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange for the few minutes it takes to write a brief self-description, what qualities you desire in a partner, and $16.50--"a small risk for a great gain," according to the ad--Schramm will try to "unite you with your dream mate...
Dining Services Director Frank J. Weissbecker, who could not be reached for comment, apparently sent a brief memorandum to key people and directories of the universities about the name change. However, many dining hall employees contacted this week said they were not aware of the change...
...eight-month trial. Both judge and defendants were protected behind bulletproof glass shields. After taking the bench, Judge Mahesh Chandra wasted no time. The evidence was overwhelming, he said, that the three suspects in the October 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were guilty. Following a brief recess, Chandra declared this to be one of those "rarest of rare" crimes in which the ultimate penalty was clearly called for. He then sentenced the men to death. Asked if they had anything to say, the three bearded and turbaned defendants each stood up and declared, "I am innocent...
...lives. In fact, all of the dialogue is in Serbo-Croatian. The only time the subtitles present a problem to the unattentive viewer is at the film's beginning, when it is difficult to discern which characters are central, and which characters are central, and which are only of brief importance. This problem is attributable to the script, however, and is a minor flaw in an otherwise excellent screenplay...
...Davies' story falls apart. Essentially Davies dumps poor Cornish back in Canada and treats us to a perfunctory conclusion. Cornish becomes an eccentric collector; Cornish makes a few friends; Cornish deeply hurts one of his dear friends who then kills himself; Cornish dies. They are all very unsatisfying, these brief sketches of the elder Cornish, and they lead us nowhere. The crescendo of the story, which amounts to one of Cornish's dear friends asking him for money to buy one of Cornish's own medieval-style masterpieces falls very flat...