Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUPPOSE IT had to happen eventually. Someone had to combine the making-of-a-champion motif of Downhill Racer with the sentimental mawkishness of Love Story, and set the whole thing inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The result is what you might expect...
...says Elaine May, who should know. She wrote and directed last year's A New Leaf, and is currently on location in Minneapolis to direct her second film, The Heartbreak Kid. A comedy scripted by Neil Simon about a man who expects perfection from a wife and is twice disillusioned, it stars her daughter Jeannie Berlin. "Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it," Miss May says. "It would be hideous to think that either sex took a script and in any way pushed it toward any point of view other than the author...
...billed as a Stanley Cup playoff match between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the evening progressed, it looked more like the Ringling Bros. Circus. Late in the last period at Madison Square Garden, New York's Vic Hadfield began trading punches with Toronto's Jim Harrison. Maple Leaf Goalie Bernie Parent skated to Harrison's assistance and was intercepted by Ranger Goalie Ed Giacomin. During the four-way fray, Parent's $150 custom-made mask was snatched off the ice and thrown into the stands. Enraged when fans refused to return...
Natural Sciences 26 is unusual; it is one of the very few courses offered here that deals with the social impact of modern science. In a biology course offered last spring, several topics in plant physiology received considerable attention--one of which was the role of plant hormones in leaf abscission. The instructor spent a few minutes of the very last lecture of the term telling his students that the plant hormones whose effects they had so diligently studied were the same ones used as defoliants in the ravaging of the Vietnamese countryside. He was one of the university scientists...
...equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree is a red maple tree? Look at the leaf on page 11 and sign your name under yes or no." Despite the appearance of chaos "the structure is far from haphazard," Mrs. Weber says. "It comes from what you decide to put in the classroom and how it's laid...