Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season-ending match, Fish figured, was cause for a celebration drink. They hadn't beaten powerhouse Princeton, and they hadn't won the league. But they had done pretty well, everyone thought. And, besides, the manager had helped the boys sweep Cornell...
...deal with it effectively. There are, however, no easy solutions. Business does have the right to get its views across. Some first steps that have suggested are federal chartering of corporations, public financing of Congressional elections and strict lobbying disclosure laws. It seems clear that something must be done. We must not allow corporations, by virtue of their special financial status, to dominate access to the media, to the electoral process and to our politicians. We must not allow the voices of ordinary citizens to be drowned out in the name of free speech...
There is some racial joking in Love at First Bite that one could have done without. It is intended to prove that nothing is sacred to the film makers, but it just plays uncomfortably. There is also a flatness about Stan Dragoti's direction that prevents the film from realizing all its comic potential. But the performances (including that of Arte Johnson as Renfield, the count's bug-eating assistant) are uniformly jolly, the parody of the basic Dracula formula well observed and its social commentary deliciously off the wall. The production's genially tatty air enhances...
...ideas; then he spent the weekends writing his column longhand on ruled pads, finishing it by the time he was ready to drive home on Sunday night. "I wrote three or four pieces this way," says Thomas. "Then I called Ingelfinger and told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should, so I did." Very shortly afterward, Thomas' column began attracting a cult of pass-along readers. The evolution that led to The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail had begun...
Although Harvard, injury-free at last, won the contest, the victory could only have made Coach Bob Scalise wonder about what his charges might have done in the crucial Princeton game two weeks ago had they been as healthy...