Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast track, but it's a bit windy," Hand said of Harvard's new outdoor facility...
...problem with this attempt to fashion a contemporary parallel of Renaissance parables: Bogdanovich isn't clever enough to succeed. He prevent us from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended family of hard-core...
...Columbia more than 50 students are staging an open-ended hunger fast in an attempt to pressure Columbia to divest of $39 million for about 5 percent of its endowment--invested in companies which do business in South Africa...
...senior Paird C. Lownsend, a member of the Coalition for a Free South Africa, which planned the event, said yesterday that he and six other students, including two Black South Africans, have not eaten any solid food since the task began 11 days age. Other students have joined the fast for irregular intervals in a show of solidarity...
...Columbia spokesman said the Manhattan university's only official comment on the fast was a prepared statement reading. "We're confident that the fasting students, their parents and friends will make sure that their health is protected, and we stand ready to help in that regard...