Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tapes catch little of the celebrated Kennedy wit, although the tenseness of the long night in which he and top advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units...
...North Yemen to Angola, of Soviet influence in the Middle East and Africa. The country's Marxist rulers, who toppled the pro-U.S. government of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, now only rarely open their doors to Western reporters. One of the few who has managed to catch a glimpse of how Marxism African-style works is TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief John Borrell. His report...
...everything in men's tennis is rotten: the strong-arming for appearance money, the dubious clinics and commercial deals to launder the money, the cooperation of umpires in protecting the investment, the splitting of prizes, the prearranging of exhibition results, the "tanking" of unlucrative doubles matches merely to catch a plane...
Eric's Roof Garden/Swiss Inn (114 Mt. Auburn St.): Owned by the same company. Eric's is located above and behind its sister establishment and really is the only place in the Square where you can catch a few rays as you drink. Naturally, you pay a few more cents for that privilege. The Swiss Inn Features a 4-7 p.m. happy hour Friday afternoons, with 50s off drinks and a buffet of cold cuts, cheeses, and chicken sings Basically, a free dinner...
...directed by Glass's galvanizing Rubric: loud, brash music, pulsing like a motor. One could never join this crowd of pedestrians; anyone who has ever tried to move across a major artery, or even a busy sidewalk, in an alien capital knows how hard it is to catch the rhythm. Yet a series of three couples in pale unitards does invade the mob, finally clearing a space for their own brief dance and slightly skewing the renewed movement of the throng. Clearly this urban ritual could go on forever, but abruptly the bright lights are quenched...