Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice makes perfect, then the Harvard women's volleyball team might soon find an Ivy League crown in its lap...
...armed with baroque bows. The theorbos, or chitarrones, their halved-pear bodies flowering into tall, lyrical stalks. The melancholy viola da gamba and the haunting lirone shaped like early venuses. The blockflutes, the recorders with their warm and woody sound. The tiny baroque guitar, cradled like a courageous lap-dog, and the harpsichords, the harpsichords: banquet tables of the basso-continuo; two banks of oars pulling across the river...
...Trudeau has also captured Bill Clinton as a waffle dripping with maple syrup, combining in one small image both the president's indecisiveness and his passion for food, and portrayed Vice President Al Gore '69 as a young child sitting on the lap of his Senator father, waiting to be spoon-fed the presidency. This year, though, the images will be harder to make new. The current presidential race is shaping up as the embodiment of the old proverb: history the first time is tragedy but when repeated is farce...
...Birkett headed toward Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where he received his master's in 1995. Though his initial job as Assistant Head Master at Boston's Renaissance School "literally fell into my lap," as he says, he beat out 35 other applicants to become Banneker's executive director in the June...
...first on-ice appearance for the women since winning the American Women's College Hockey Association national championship last spring. The squad's captains took a lap around the ice with the trophy, passing it around like it was the Stanley...