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Landford, a former director of the Massacusetts Institute of Technology's innovative Daedalus Project, developed a human-powered aircraft that flew record-breaking distances over the Greek islands Crete and Santorini...
...occasion and fixed to the underside of the Superdome roof with 17,432 twist ties), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse watch the Broncos and the 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XXIV. Joe Montana lazily solves the Savings and Loan Crisis. At half speed, without pads, John Elway construes Greek...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy, who regularly assigns his own The Best of the Achaeans to his perennially popular Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," said that his earnings from the book's sales are "infinitesimally small...
Holiday's death was tragic, but in an African-American sense, not a Greek one. Whenever Holiday travelled with an orchestra, black or white, she faced extreme prejudice and racism. While with Count Basie's orchestra in the South, she was forced to darken her skin with grease paint so the audience would not think she was a white singer working for a black band. When she was with Artie Shaw's orchestra, she was forced leave the stage after her songs were over because it was not "proper" for her to sit down onstage with whites...
...Brent's script follows Evangeline Edwards--the nymph errant--as she meanders across the Continent, having been encouraged by her boarding school chemistry teacher to "experiment" with different experiences and, inevitably, with different men. Her romantic interests run the gamut from a lecherous French musical director to a sleazy Greek merchant...