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...Harry Cowles was the greatest coach in racquet history," Barnaby said. "He analyzed every facet of the game. He was just as remarkable as [basketball coach] John Wooden and [football coach] Knute Rockne. We won more championships in a minute than they did in a week...
...Avery-Gold Productions, with help from local radio giant WBCN-FM, the Boston Phoenix, and even MTV--three organizations largely responsible for the promotion of many Boston acts and the neglect of many others-undertook this ambitious if quixotic effort to recognize virtually everyone in every facet of the Boston music scene, in a single evening's ceremony last week...
...classic traditionalist argument against feminism is that there are certain inalienable aspects of womanhood which render moot arguments favoring a strict equality of the sexes. One such facet of feminity, of course, is the woman's ability to carry and give birth to children. This is the one conservatives use to defend their resistance to women leaving the home for the workplace. They argue that the bonds that develop between mother and child know no laws that humans may construct among themselves: "The forces that are at work here are not to be reduced to using the strength and power...
...THEATRICAL PIECE, be it the oddest surreal composition or three hours of unstinting realism, must be the visible facet of a complete coherent reality lurking without the borders of the play. It must make sense, even if it is a sense never before seen. The job of the dramatist is to create a new world, or a new version of the world we know, and to put it in the same room with a paying audience...
...scandal emerged as one facet in a developing national debate over the government's role in supporting research--a debate set off, in part, by controversies over President Reagan's "Star Wars" program. National intelligence agencies do not dish out cash on the same scale as the Department of Defense, but "spook" funding still poses a double threat to responsible scholarship. First, it imposes the risk of the government censoring or biasing sensitive research, and second, such support can destroy the credibility of both the scholar and his institution...