Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side of serialist Milton Babbitt of Princeton--who once wrote an essay entitled. "Who; Cares if You Listen?"--or the avowedly populist Elliott Carter--whom he accuses of having a "more calculated attitude towards world success" than Babbitt. His classical composers are placed in a musical Catch--22; either they are anti-public or so commercial that they compromise their values...
...started moving on the Engineers at the 1500-meter point. In the last 60 strokes Harvard increased its cadence and closed the gap--almost. "We just ran out of space," bow man Justin Kermond said yesterday. "In a tailwind situation like Saturday's it's a lot harder to catch a boat...
...Soviets keep building, the U.S. must play catch-up to a certain extent, both to prevent the Soviets from monopolizing certain categories of weaponry (as they have with the SS-20) and to remain within what might be called negotiating distance of them. Yet the Kremlin will hardly be in a negotiating mood if the U.S. sets as a precondition for agreement the requirement that the Soviets engage in what to them looks like unilateral disarmament. The middle ground is for the U.S. to show that it is willing to rearm when and where necessary, but to engage in bilateral...
...jumbo shrimp and more than 200 kinds of fish, including tuna and sea bass. Although the extent of damage to marine life is not yet known, dead fish are already washing ashore in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Some officials fear that the contamination may destroy a year's catch of some varieties...
...milieu are familiar enough, in movies from The Graduate to Diner, to constitute a new American genre. But whenever Baby, It's You starts to become rambling or folkloric, Sayles and his charming young actors find a way to twist or energize the clichés. You can catch a glisten of moisture in the eye of an "easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their first sexy...