Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLUMBIA and PENN (tie): Hapless though they may seem, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for both the Lions and the Quakers. Rookie head coach Bob Naso, an assistant for 20 years at Rutgers, comes to New York and will install a new offense...
...island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot, huh? If you've ever seen Get Smart, imagine what Don Adams could do with...
...ACSR's glimmer of activism caught the Corporation off-guard. Until this spring, the ACSR consistently followed the Corporation's line on shareholder matters, backing management's position on all proxies. In response to the ACSR's pro-management alignment, the undergraduate representative to the committee resigned in the winter of 1979, saying the ACSR failed to fulfill its mandate by subordinating the moral and ethical implications of Harvard's investments to the financial. This year, however, with a new undergraduate member, and with the alumni, faculty and graduate student members weathered by five laborious years of debate on Harvard...
Reliever Victor Cruz provided a glimmer of delight with several late-inning fireman exploits. At the end of the season, he was promptingly traded, along with his sparkling earned run average, to Cleveland...
...organizing such details into pictures, a number of the photographers have exploited their medium's access to ambiguity, the unguided camera's tendency to describe things without explaining them. (The most bedeviling example features a car's empty interior, a glimmer of light edging the trim beneath the window, through which we see a tangle of foliage and a woman whose face is cut off by the car top, and whose braceletted hands are removing her underpants.) And nearly all the pictures display a reluctance (shared by most contemporary painters) to deal directly with, or even to acknowledge, the complexities...