Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept of "party" at Harvard evokes certain images: a small, out-of-the-way room party--harmless because of its spontaneity; mixers on a cabinet next to a Mac; a little U2, Suzanne Vega, or even LL Cool J on the turntable. One can go to three or four little gatherings in a night, meet people, dance, and go home happy. And not worry about interference by Harvard or its agents...
...Canada's Brian Orser each skate electrifying, near perfect two- minute programs. Even Cliff Huxtable wouldn't miss tonight's head-to-head: 6.0s could be in the air. -- On tape: Swiss Downhillers Michela Figini and Maria Walliser (one-two at Sarajevo) renew their pell-mell, icy-cool rivalry...
Zurbriggen's cool psyche has a large, invisible eggshell around it. Everything he needs is inside. His ties are very strong to his parents and the small 30-bed sport hotel, called the Larchenhof, that his father Alois built and now runs. A ski racer himself, Alois quit when a younger brother died after a ski fall, but it was he who first encouraged Pirmin to race. Pirmin's girlfriend Moni Julen, a pretty, dark-haired ski instructor from Zermatt, is a cousin of his friend Max and is accepted as part of this tight, protective mountain clan, which includes...
Fragonard's rococo style and subject matter eventually lost favor with the public, which came to prefer the cool, luminous approach of Jacques-Louis David and other neoclassicists. Shortly after the Revolution began, Fragonard left Paris for Provence, but returned to the capital in 1792. By then, with many of his former patrons dead or exiled, he had virtually ceased painting. David, his friend and protege, found him a post with the arts commission that established what is now the Louvre Museum, but a Napoleonic decree of 1805 ousted Fragonard and other artists from their residences there. A year later...
...advisers. While a certain allowance must be made for the failings of memory, these disparities are too stark and too shockingly recurrent to be explained away. The good men of Camelot have deliberately altered the public record of the Crisis to create an image of President Kennedy as a cool, tough leader who saved the Free World from the encroachments of communism--instead of a dovish Kennedy who sought the easiest way to resolve the Crisis...