Word: knot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Math of Unemployment," you just tug at the Gordian knot of joblessness. The rate is high, you explain, because women are entering the labor force in record numbers. One is then led to believe that unemployment isn't as bad as it seems because male breadwinners are still working. This is a fallacy...
Moments later, a beautiful lead pass from Dave Acorn found Lyman Bullard alone in front of the UMass net, but he hit the post and then shanked the rebound wide left. After 21 minutes of play, the Minutemen got a goal from Tony Biladeau to knot the score...
Still leading by one, Wesleyan was content to kick the ball upfield and waste time. Struggling to keep the ball in the offensive end, Harvard nevertheless had its chances to knot the score. At one point, Bullard was robbed by a brilliant save by the Cardinal goalie...
Nowadays Billy Dee is firmly tied with a Gordyan knot-a guaranteed annual income of $200,000 whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously...
...prose duologue of lesser figures. The second half, similarly introduced by a prose duologue, brings us pastoral comedy in Bohemia. But the playwright goes on to take us back to Leontes and Sicilia at the end, where all the seemingly disparate elements are miraculously tied together with a triple knot. Kahn underlines this by having Time appear wordlessly in the first half bearing a barren branch, and in the second half bearing a green and, finally, a gold one. Miss Greenwood's costumes for Sicilia are stark white; for Bohemia they are brightly colored (and Conklin's hanging transparent tubes...