Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quincy lost the tackle football championship 13-7 to a surprising South House team in the final minute of the playoffs. Lisa Hirschorn, SoHo athletic secretary, attributed South House's fourth-place position to top draft picks in the housing lottery and "a total change in attitude" within the House. Intramural Sports Standings House Points Sport Champion Kirkland 472 Tackle Football South Winthrop 416 Quincy 332 Touch Football Winthrop South 293 Eliot 288 Co-ed Mather 284 Touch Football Kirkland Lowell 270 North 130 Women's Soccer Eliot/Winthrop Leverett 116 Currier 102 Field Hockey North Dudley 82 Dunster 52 Cross...
...committee's three members--Richard Wilson, professor of Physics and the committee's chairman, and Susan Wiltshire, head of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters--said the proposal would probably be included when the panel makes its final report at the end of this year. (The third member. George W. Rathjens, MIT professor of political science and a well-known physicist, could not be reached for comment...
...final song on side one, "Ambush," is Marley's reflection on an incident that occurred when he tolerated the Jamaican political system. Marley had agreed to stage a benefit concert for labor party leader, Michael Manley. Days before the concert, professional gunmen ambushed Marley and his friends, killing one person. Rumors circulated that the attack had been a move by Manley to throw suspicion on his rivals just before the national election. Marley opens the song by mocking the values of the Jamaican power elite. He then asserts that his power to rally black Jamaicans against the system...
...began almost a year ago as an attempt to "clear the air" and "restore public confidence." When it ended last week, it was apparent that an unprecedented and excruciating investigation of the California Supreme Court had not succeeded in achieving either goal. The final report by California's commission on judicial performance briefly stated that "no formal charges will be filed against any supreme court justice." It was a less than conclusive judgment and thus left impaired the reputation of a court long considered among the most enlightened in the nation...
...humor that he brings to the film's social canvas. The hero has too many stereotypical conflicts with his overly villainous parents and employers; there are too many scenes that try to convey his sensitivity by showing him brooding on the beach at Brighton. The film's final section, a long chain of cathartic crises, is contrived. Still, Phil Daniels, as Jimmy, is both appealingly quirky and a good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized...