Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what will it take for the Quadrangle to get its fair share of renovations? One week the students could commandeer a shuttle bus; the next week Hilles; and finally, during reading period, a coordinated attack on the Quadrangle kitchens. Amid the shattering plastic and shrieks of Quaddish fervor, two hisses of rustling paper will rise to a crescendo and drown out the actual event...
...that has an act full of fun, a songbook full of tunes with enough hooks to put in a tackle box and a sensual appeal that is insinuating and disarming at once, the Fab Four get trotted out like some handy musical yardstick for measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first as U.S. headliners--but the accomplishment of their guitar playing isn't fully matched by any assurance of stagecraft, and the vocals (shared by all four...
Oklahoma has a 7.8% unemployment rate, and last month's annual state fair in the town of Ada attracted a record 9,800 job seekers, more than double last year's turnout. Phillips Petroleum, based in Bartlesville, Okla., last week said that it will soon lay off between 2,000 and 2,500 employees, up to 9.4% of its total work force. Says Kerry Malone, editor of an Oklahoma oil-industry publication: "No one is jumping out of windows yet, but they're looking at the ledges...
...fair, each actor individually does well, but as an ensemble they lack cohesion. Lines evaporate. Little carries across the stage. And along with the passion, the humor in the dialogue--a Stoppard play should be a rollicking experience--is lost as well...
...scholarly tradition, an important footnote: "I would also tell the students that I've enjoyed the job. And some nights you go home feeling ten feet tall I've had a fair sprinkling of them." Mortarboard comes off. Professor departs. The President looks ahead three years, grins, rubs his hands, says, "I wouldn't know how to coast...