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...might get a mild argument from the other guys in the four-ring circus that is the Beanpot but--sorry. Charlie this year's feature attraction comes in Week One While Harvard and Northeastern hover around mediocrity B.U. and B.C.--the last two Pot champs enter the Causeway St. shootout as the class of the East...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The First-Round Final | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Democratic presidential race is becoming legitimate news at last. Television crews now hover around the contenders. But the left-behinds complain that they have been mugged in the dark during these past months while the press concentrated on the rivalry between Walter Mondale and John Glenn as front runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Daring to Be Cautious | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Situated in Boston's theater district, the unusual self-heating structure will open formally at the end of this month, when local temperatures typically hover at 20° or 30°F. Still, the designers of the ingenious heating system, Henry Eggert and Howard McKew of Shooshanian Engineering Associates of Boston, are confident that teeth will not chatter nor pipes freeze. Indeed, they insist, the eight-story, 880,000-sq.-ft., redbrick Transportation Building will stay a comfortable 72°F all year round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keeping Warm, Boston Style | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...Nick Aiuto), deception which Pseudolus promises to maintain in return for his freedom. The script--liberally seasoned with campus allusions--relies on sexual jokes which play mostly on the naivete of the young couple ("A virgin? Is that good?") and the frustrations of everyone else. Many of these jokes hover at the borders of good taste, but given the Kirkland sponsorship of the show, the crowd finds this appealing...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Roman Revelry | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...technologies-from Raymond Loewy's 1948 television set to Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1981 Logica electronic sewing machine-are concentrated by Curator Kathryn Hiesinger in a central space, a circle of dramatic display columns that Nelson calls Stonehenge. Models of Explorer I and a 1976 Satcom satellite hover above. Along the way to the shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Forms That Follow Function | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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