Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's stature and the media's lavish praise have made the Core one of the most influential curricula in America, but it is hollow," continued Caleb Nelson '88, who is currently a third-year student at Yale Law School...
Yale boasts the top three scorers in the league. In only four ECAC games, seniors Mark Kaufmann and James Lavish and junior Martin Leroux have combined for 14 goals and 20 assists...
...ease the money crunch by transferring as much as $30 billion during the next four years from the Pentagon's research budget to civilian science and technology. But faced with an annual federal budget deficit of about $300 billion, the new President cannot support basic research in the lavish, no-strings fashion that scientists have come to expect. Giant projects such as the superconducting supercollider, the proposed $8.25 billion Texas-based atom smasher that will hunt for quarks and other exotic subatomic particles, will come under increasingly tough scrutiny...
...beloved New York City institution blessedly prospers: the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. One million people are expected to see the 60th edition of the Music Hall show (through Jan. 6), double the number of a decade ago. No wonder. Here's a spectacular that really is -- a lavish celebration of the spirit of Christmas simultaneously traditional and inventive. Teddy bears dance The Nutcracker, Scrooge learns compassion, ice skaters whirl around a mini Rockefeller Plaza rink, the Rockettes march The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and shepherds and sheep, Wise Men and camels celebrate the Nativity. Joy to the world...
...surprise about Malcolm X is how ordinary it is. The film is a lavish, linear, way-too-long (3 hr. 21 min.) storybook of Malcolm's career, the movie equivalent of an authorized biography, a cautious primer for black pride. It is Lee's biggest film, and the least Spikey. At one point in producer Marvin Worth's 26-year hajj to get this movie made, and before he was persuaded that an African American should direct the movie, Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story) wanted to do it. If Jewison had, the product would be about the same. Only...