Word: gracefully
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...purpose though. By the end of 1991, the Fogg Art Museum will sport a new annex, a new affiliated housing development will grace DeWolfe St. and the east end of the Square will house a Harvard-owned hotel...
...transfer options open for women, many couples are adopting a your-turn- my-turn strategy. Grace Flores-Hughes, 44, gave up a government job to follow the career of Lieut. General Harley Arnold Hughes, 54; she no sooner settled into an academic post in Omaha than her husband's career relocated them back to Washington. "I knew that one day if I needed something, he would support me," she says. That day came in 1987 when she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be director of community-relations service at the U.S. Justice Department. Harley Hughes, who faced...
...other words, if nations are going to square off against one another, better they do so along a single, well-defined, well- fortified line that everyone knows not to cross. With a balance of power has come a balance of terror. War can be averted by that saving grace of the nuclear age, mutual deterrence...
...producer wouldn't play along. Angrily, Mackintosh declared that Equity had created "a poisonous atmosphere in which creativity and artistic freedom cannot function or survive." He then dealt the coup de grace: "If Equity is unwilling to take steps to ensure that reason and fairness prevail, then I have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss...
...measure a baseball fan by his boyhood heroes. On the wall behind Fay Vincent's desk is the original artwork from Whitey Ford's 1953 Topps baseball card, a talisman of the bygone era when the New York Yankees symbolized success, stability and smug superiority. If Joe DiMaggio personified grace, and Mickey Mantle represented God-given talent, then Ford, the gritty little lefty ace of the pitching staff, was guile elevated to Hall of Fame standards. This quality is not lost on the baseball commissioner, who says with reverence, "He had the greatest pick-off move to first...