Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penn at Brown, 1:30 p.m., Providence, R.I. This is a classic match-up: the experienced champ against the upstart contender. Penn (3-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy) is looking for a record-tying fifth consecutive Ivy title...
...rebound began almost five years ago, when stores specializing in classic and current comics started to sprout in shopping centers. Today there are about 4,000 such dealers, who account for 50% of U.S. comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed...
...pattern has been more complex than that. Where there was little choice on issues, victory has gone to those who seemed most committed to the interests of the average person, rather than those of the Establishment. That is the classic strategy of populism, born a century ago. Though the movement has zigzagged through the political landscape, and though some conservatives now claim a share of its legacy, populism's core remains its opposition to assorted elites. In Maryland, for instance, the voting records of Representatives Barbara Mikulski and Michael Barnes are both strongly liberal. Mikulski, the shrill voice of blue...
Undergraduates appear to prefer jackets with shawl collars (rounded style), although the notch collar (as on a sports jacket) is also popular, says Goldstein. "The shawl collar is a more classic style," says Frusztajer, who owns several tuxes for on-stage performances...
Before he began writing plays, Tolins directed and acted in several campus plays during the past two years, and he plans to keep up those roles as he expands his other activities. In late October, he will direct The Skin of our Teeth, a "bizarre American classic" which Tolins updated slightly to make it less confusing for the audience. Tolins calls himself a "conservative director" and says he was surprised that he was given this potentially avant-garde play to direct. The play, he says, "has a load of thoughts on morality, family, war and love that are worth...