Word: cente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written some riotous speeches here, the characters are gems, and now and then a line will be both starkly funny and horrible--as when the producer says to the Lord in mock prayer with the shivering contestant that maybe this poor, white-trash hick has only a 50-per-cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance is the best goddamned chance he's ever gonna get." But despite a superbly dark, sick ending the play is too predictably structured, the target too easy, and, compared with a truly political vaudeville like Dario...
Cambridge officials said yesterday that their plan to distribute "estimated property tax bills" to city homeowners, based on a 100-per-cent reassessment to be completed later this year, has again been delayed...
...week indicate that undergraduates received more "unsatisfactory" academic records last year than at any time in recent history, in part because of the College's first round of grade deflation in several decades. The Administrative Board last year reviewed the cases of 622 students with unsatisfactory grades--9.4 per cent of the student body...
...theme of the Black struggle in America? The question has become grave today, with the Reagan administration's policies jeopardizing recently acquired benefits. Can and will Blacks continue to advance while the government discourages more busing to desegregate schools and lets Black unemployment climb to more than 16 per cent, and Conservatives more openly oppose the won-with-blood Voting Rights...
...going to do everything I can to save the show," Demetrios said, adding that he has "about a 25 per cent chance of success...