Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollars, if the rider is so inclined. The renewed fascination with bicycles has brought with it a new fashion, as capricious-and expensive-as haute couture. Now discriminating enthusiasts can buy a futuristic ten-speed British Hetchins for $900, or the Italian Coinage for $1,200. Such merchandise features an airiness that makes spider webs appear cumbersome, and offers gears so refined that they ought to be able to do logarithms. Yet the superbikes' forward motion does not differ substantially from that of the cheaper models. Non-aficionados often wonder whether it might be cheaper...
...typical fashion, Harvard won the 36-hole GBC with a 42-stroke margin, and swept the first three individual places. Freshman Alex Vik, wunderkind of the golf team, won his second championship in four days, with rounds of 69 and 73. This blistering 142, an even par total, gave him one of the lowest scores ever recorded in the history of the tournament...
...inevitable superficiality of their participation, indeed of their thoughtfulness, for the benefit of Harvard's future, when they already occupy 10 or more equally engrossing positions. Moreover, I also fear that by virtue of the distance in time from their student experiences, they are less eligible to fashion the policies that will shape Harvard University in the 1980s and 1990s...
...less organized fashion, upperclass guidance continue at the Quad throughout the year. This is particularly evident when freshmen choose concentrations in the spring...
Thurberesque Comedy. In true Hollywood fashion, Carney's award is belated justice. In 1965 it was Carney who made immortal the finicky Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on Broadway only to be elbowed out of the movie by more bankable Jack Lemmon. If anyone doubted the injustice, two nights after the Oscars, ABC aired a Jules Feiffer sketch of Carney giving a performance of Thurberesque comedy as a harried househusband, a timid man all but overcome by familial concupiscence...