Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council members were so eager to bring a reggae artist to Harvard, given that another reggae concert--by Jimmy Cliff last year--met with mixed reviews. "I think Ziggy Marley is too expensive. The council can't afford to lose that much." Battat went on to demonstrate a keen knowledge of reggae music trivia. "there are a lot of problems [with Ziggy Marley]," Battat said. "He just fired his band a couple of months ago so things are a little shaky...
...addition, Battat said that the council should have learned from last year's Jimmy Cliff concert that reggae is not very popular at Harvard. "The Jimmy Cliff concert last fall lost the council about $8,000. Frankly, it's unconscionable that they would consider bringing an act that has already failed...There is no institutional memory...
...concerts also may tend to run over any allotted budget, Battat said. "Concert promoters realize that they are dealing with amateurs. It's an absolute money pit. It's very easy for the concert to go way over budget: permits, security, artists, stipulations. Jimmy Cliff demanded special meals and hotelaccomodations. These things can't be forseen."Princeton held the same Cliff concert last yearfor $5,000 less than Harvard paid, Battat said...
...That cliff is the "second shift"--housework and child care that husbands and wives must do after their first shift of work at their jobs. Tensions between work at home and job commitments, she writes, can lead to neglected children, marital unhappiness and, ultimately, divorce...
Shades of detail had not yet been sketched in, but the picture's message was evident. The boulder was Nicolae Ceausescu, and the people were trying to propel the monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with...