Word: eight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, sophomore forward Ron Mitchell had dominated the inside game, collecting 21 points and eight rebounds by the two-minute mark of the second half. The Crimson (2-4) trailed by only three points, 46-43. Then the roof caved...
Dickerson did most of the damage on the break, finishing 9-for-17 from the field. Point guard Dwight Pernell--averaging 20 points per game--was limited to eight points because of a poor shooting night (3-for-10 from the field). But the 6-ft., 1-in. co-captain did his damage on the front end of the break, dishing out 12 assists...
Amid all these messes, she made some memorable movies, including Gilda and Miss Sadie Thompson. But the final years were awful. She abandoned her last film role in 1972. Eight years later, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...
...would call it rabble- rousing -- have refined this show to the point that it has a slick, thoroughly professional sheen. Rifkin moves through an audience as if it were his private party, talking, interviewing, questioning and, occasionally but ever so kindly, embarrassing. He will perform for 30 minutes or eight hours, depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke and other architects of efficiency. And the Boys' great sin? To have created an atmosphere that allows scientists to impose untested new technologies on society...
Following eight nights of tumultuous demonstrations and calls for democracy, Czechoslovak party leader Milos Jakes resigns. The day in 1968 that Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. Prepping for his shipboard sessions with Gorbachev, Bush gives some signs that the meetings just might go beyond the get- acquainted exercise he originally envisioned. How the President's thoughts on the Soviet Union -- and its daring leader -- have evolved from standoffishness to engagement...