Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the story of a machine. Actually several machines. First there is my car. You know the familiar story--"when it works, it's great!" This fall it hasn't. It's been in the shop more often than Harvard has changed quarterbacks...
Then there's the Harvard football team. Like my car, it has been (quarter) backfiring. It's offense has had to be rebuilt every time it's used because of signal caller injuries. Last week Burke St. John came back and the offense looked well-oiled to start the game but it needed a valve...
...DESIGNER Derek McLane has a fascinating concept in the slanting plank floor and versatile wooden rhombus platform that defines the scene. But his imitation of a forest looks more like one of those soap machines that scrapes across your windshield at a roll-up-the-windows car wash. McLane's platform, moreover, makes for awkward inter-scene set changes, with podiums, benches and other pieces of furniture rolling down the platform and jerking to a stop (as the audience counts its lucky stars). Light designer Rachel Pasch has done an adequate, if not sterling job, fighting as she has with...
...fooling with "monetary aggregates" and free-floating interest rates--which the public doesn't understand, and would probably fight if it did--the federal government could take steps to enforce gasoline conservation, either directly by legislated requirements for Detroit or indirectly by an exorbitant gas tax that would force car-makers to produce more efficient autos. There would be inevitable problems to work out, but the public would see a concrete step against inflation much more comprehensible and palatable than Volcker's fiddling...
Cratylus: But consider the fastest member of the Harvard women's soccer team, whose first name is that of an agile animal and whose last name sounds like a fancy Italian sports car...