Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, there's only one--Northeastern, which took sixth behind fifth-place Harvard at last month's San Diego Crew Classic, and fell to Harvard Saturday on the Charles...
Reagan started with a classic Reagan line: "A lot of problems disappear when we talk to each other," he said, "rather than about each other." Then he turned even sweeter, more avuncular. "One had only to look at the beautiful children we saw outside," Reagan told Li, "to know that our job as leaders is to deliver a better world to them than the one we found. That is what we are all here for." Replied Li, who is 78: "You said it very well. It is for the older generation to work for a better world...
...classic example of how this dynamic has worked in practice can be seen in an insidious interaction between two high-tech systems: today's ultimate offensive weapons, multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, and yesterday's misconceived defensive weapons, antiballistic missiles, or ABMs...
Director Patrick Bradford deserves much credit for not forcing the play into the shape of a comedy, melodrama, or sitcom, because Hansberry's plot resists constraints of form, narrowly understood. Avoiding the two temptations attendant on staging a classic. Bradford neither lets the play pull all the weight of the production, nor reinterprets the play in silly ways--making everyone wear parachute suits, for instance. Bradford's active good judgment, dramatic flair, and sense of timing preserve the thoroughness and unsentimental freshness of the original...
Alfano's Pizza and Spaghetti Restaurant in tiny Oregon, Ill. (pop. 3,800), was a classic mom-and-pop eatery. The friendly Sicilian owner, Pietro ("Pete") Alfano, often tied on an apron and made the pizza himself. Townsfolk were understandably shocked last week when federal authorities arrested Pete, calling him a "main contact point in the United States" for an international drug-trafficking ring run by one of New York City's major Mafia families...