Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY TWO ILLUSTRATIONS appear in the 1980-81 edition of the handbook. The first is truly fascinating, showing the curious exactly where on one's auto one should paste both one's Commonwealth of Massachusetts non-resident student registration ("top center of windshield") and faculty, staff or student parking permit ("to be placed here.") The front and the rear of the sedan are labeled for easy identification. The other illustration--a flow chart of Harvard's organizational structure--is harder to follow. Power seems to flow from the Board of Overseers through the President and Fellows and down...
...their monarchy. What they get out of it. Why they need it. The British have frequently bestirred themselves to reply, sounding off in essays, epistles to the Times and innumerable speeches, all of which sounded as much like pep talks to the home team as reasoned answers to a curious-and sometimes bemused-off-island audience. As Leonard Mather, 50, a spectator along the processional route, put it: "We haven't got much any more in this country, but we do have our monarchy. It's a big part of what gives us self-respect...
...place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright who worked the graveyard shift in the café, which is owned by his father-in-law Henry Howard. Adan took the "toughest duty," explains Howard, "because he was interested in people. Some curious types come in after midnight...
...years of digging into the ancient riverbed, Webb and his students sifted through more than 100 tons of clay, working thousands of hours in the sun. They also encountered other problems, like protecting the site from the curious and vandals. To drive them off, recalls Love, he would occasionally fire his bird gun. Says he: "I got the reputation for a while as a crazy farmer...
...This curious and seductive song, co-written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1975, has turned into a surprise hit for Kim Carnes, who has been looking for a smash almost as long as Now Voyager has been playing on the late show. Carnes, 34, who served time in the late 1960s dishing up freezer-packed folk music with the New Christy Minstrels, has a voice that is throaty without being funky, insinuating but safe, sort of like Lizabeth Scott chugging Vicks cough syrup. Garbo and Harlow are mentioned with Davis in the song, an evocation of a killer-diller...