Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Landau struggled all afternoon--completing only seven of 16 attempts with five interceptions--Harvard's first goose-egg in 41 outings was by no means entirely his fault...
...protect his investments. To his 22,000 employees, the name Tisch is synonymous with an unerring ability to control any cost, expose any extravagance. From such talents a fortune has been forged: along with his brother, Loews President Preston Robert (Bob) Tisch, Larry has amassed a tidy family nest egg estimated at $2 billion...
...Cambridge. "Most medical schools have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
...hats, of course. "I'm used to relaxing in the dressing room when I'm not in rehearsals, or during the show," she says. "Now I'll be standing in the wings like a mother hen." Scotto wouldn't be the first director to worry about laying an egg...
...movie is too scuzzy to beguile children, too infantile to appeal to adults. Its humor is sub-Mad: Howard (played by Actor Ed Gale, and some other small people, in a duck suit, with Chip Zien providing the voice) is a master of "quack fu" who reads Rolling Egg and DQ magazines. He grows angry: "No more Mr. Nice Duck." He waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose...