Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty Council last week reactivated the CRR to hear the cases of students involved in two recent antiapartheid protests; the April 24 occupation of the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House room where he was speaking...
...America, it is the people who eat the politicians for supper. Public vanishing is a dramatic spectacle usually because it has to do with power and its loss. If a politician gives a speech and there is no one there to hear it, has he made a sound? Ask Harold Stassen. He knows something about the riddle of the tree falling in the empty auditorium...
...lots of plotting, but no compelling narrative drive; plenty of characterological tics, but no characters whom one really cares for. In the title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose moral code imposes on him a mission of revenge among the drug traffickers around Miami is lazy, dull and told in imagery as murky as its underlying morality...
...drugs was a main topic of discussion at a state dinner on Thursday night near Bonn. Later, President Reagan told staffers, "Never have I seen my summit partners as united on a single subject." On returning to Bonn, the First Lady was delighted to hear of her influence at the summit. When asked what she had got out of her conversation with the Pontiff, she replied, "Encouragement. From the Pope, you can't ask for more than that...
...loaded into the computer, the following words appear on the screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional low growls. Near you is a pile of dead leaves." If the player should then type, "Examine the leaves," the program responds, "Under the leaves you see an old rusted grating set into a patch of broken concrete." And the adventure begins...