Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening's best race was the 200-yard freestyle, in which Crimson sophomore John Pearson overtook Terrier Stuart Cromartic on the last length to win the event by one-tenth of a second...
...paid him by then, and you stand before the wall-length mirror, wondering whether to wax it. The old man takes down the picture of his boy, puts it in your bloody hand...
...Middle Eastern Studies. I have tried to give a complete report of the facts and policies relating to the contracts in question. The review produced no evidence of other contracts or grants with problems of the type described above. Other aspects of the review have been discussed at length with the Standing Committee of the Faculty on Middle Eastern Studies...
...play, supposedly taking place in the night air of this retreat in the Russian countryside, turns into a laser show that drags viewers' eyes to the theater ceiling. Naturalistic scenes are interrupted by speeches snarled at the audience, by Scriabin piano works played onstage and by dimly lit, nap- length silences...
...Avedon has worked in this scale before, notably in the mammoth prints shown at his 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Here size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer feels himself to be the object of their scrutiny too. Confronted that way, one does more than take note of their mood. One tries it on, perhaps...