Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since she cut free from her newspaper column five months ago, Sheraton has lost 15 lbs. She notes, "My husband and I thought we would enjoy eating dinner at home, but we quickly got to the point where we couldn't look at each other across the dining table. The restaurant experience is more than just eating; it's an occasion and you rise to it. We even found that the quality of our conversation was higher at a restaurant." Now Sheraton and her husband dine out an average of "3½ times" a week...
Archaeology is something of a national sport in Israel. The most recently completed excavation is a 200-yd.-long stretch of the original Roman main street, called the Cardo. Under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, the Romans made it a grand boulevard lined with columns and shopping arcades. It continued to be maintained under Byzantine rule. In 1971 a plan was devised to build a cluster of town houses and a shopping mall along the nearby Street of the Jews. But when ancient column stubs were found, from both Roman and Byzantine times, Architects Peter Bugod and Esther...
...During Kinsley's tenure the magazine had been witty, controversial, and occasionally profound as it attempted to revive the essay from and apply it to intriguing, off-beat subjects such as the ethos of Thanksgiving or the politics of funeral homes. Kinsley delighted in using his "The Easy Chair" column to lambaste sacred cows, including Jonathan Schell just after Schell had written The Fate of the Earth and was considered an untouchable prophet...
...this does not necessarily mean that Harper's is catering to The People's Almanue generation, nor is it necessarily a bad thing to change every once in a while. But George V. Higgins in his "Literary Life" column in The Boston Globe was one of the few people who not only prasied the new look, but admired the courage it took to make the change Most other commentators pelted Lapham and his brainchild with the verbal equivalent of rotten fruit. The Crimson editor who suggested this story fully expected that I would "trash" the new magazine, and after reading...
...played a heck of a game up there," Cleary said.... Busconi is the only Crimson skater with double digits in the goals column. He has tallied 12. Eight members of last year's team scored 10 or more goals.... Kukulowicz is this year's enforcer, with 21 penalties for a total of 50 minutes. Visone ranks second on the boo-boo list, with 16 penalties for 35 minutes. No other Crimson player has spent more than 20 minutes in the sin bin.... The ECAC Final Four, always a hot ticket, could boil over this year. With three of the four...