Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson has only been practicing for three days, and two of its major offensive weapons, Co-Captain Julie Sasner and Brita Lind, are suffering from the flu. With these two first liners limited, non-regulars like Martina Albright were given a chance in the tough contest against Dartmouth...
...corrupt them. They were already prostitutes." That Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being caught and crushed in a murderous struggle between Bosie and his lunatic father. "The impression that has been given of Queensberry is that he was a simple brute," Ellmann writes, and adds, sounding a little like his subject: "In fact he was a complex one." The marquess, mad at Wilde and the world, threw out insults that practically begged for a libel suit. Wilde unwisely started one, lost...
...LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Choderlos de Laclos's classic epistolary novel of sexual conquest and betrayal, given entrancing wit and apocalyptic power by Adapter Christopher Hampton and a dazzling Royal Shakespeare Company production...
...Francisco Graphic Designer Michael Vanderbyl looks to Europe for inspirational rigor. The checkerboard fields and two-tone corded trim of Vanderbyl's bed linens for Esprit recall Josef Hoffmann. The palette (peach, delft, ash) is sober and cool, Wiener Werkstatte monochrome given a pastel California ruddiness. Vanderbyl sheets would go nicely in a Christopher Alexander house. Alexander, a Berkeley architect and urban theorist, has lately turned his militantly humanist attentions to office furniture. No workstations or open plans for him. Instead, Alexander and his colleagues have designed mass-production desks and bookcases that are solid and reassuringly old-fashioned, classic...
Even so, he had opposition. Grigori Romanov, the hard-line former Leningrad party boss who was once thought to be Gorbachev's chief rival, had apparently given up on winning the top job for himself. But at the Politburo session called immediately after Chernenko's death, Romanov reportedly tried a stop- Gorbachev maneuver, nominating Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo...