Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students took a closer look at Sellars' work, however, they would find a depth and background not always evident in his mod, appealing exteriors. Student theater can only benefit from the guiding influence of such a solid grounding. The significance of this intellectual connection to the creative art has been somewhat displaced in the heady pursuit of greater experimental heights...
Despite their seeming philosophical kinship, Gorsuch and Lavelle had a strained relationship. Friction between the two officials increased as Congress gave the Superfund closer scrutiny. According to colleagues, Gorsuch felt that Lavelle, who had worked for two years on Reagan's public relations staff when he was Governor of California, had been forced on her by the White House. Lavelle exacerbated matters by bragging about her ties with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. Although Meese says he knows her only slightly, Lavelle referred to him fondly as her "godfather...
These days that quest is closer to its goal than it ever was before. Moore, 47, has become America's newest, and least likely, romantic hero. At 5 ft. 2½ in., he looks up at all of his leading ladies. He is neither handsome nor intriguingly ugly, just nice looking, like millions of men in the paying public. But American audiences are now discovering what the British knew two decades ago. "He was known as Cuddly Dudley then," says Humorist Peter Cook, who collaborated with Moore through much of his career. "Whether women wanted to mother...
...Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned logic upside down. In Bedazzled, for instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog...
...high enrollment in Historical Study B-5, "The World of the Early Christians," disappointed Zeph Stewart, Mellon Professor of Greek and Latin, who said he prefers smaller classes in which one can "get closer with the people you're teaching." He speculated that limited offerings in the Historical Study department caused the large enrollment in his course...