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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strauch report also recommends that each department establish a '"normal' graduate career length." Depending on the department the length could range from 4 to 6 years...

Author: By Maia E. Harris and Jennifer L. Mnookin, S | Title: New GSAS Report: Make Major Changes | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...Spring Garden Party, ghosts portrayed with techniques most shamelessly existed from a horror Film seen this year-yes, Brad Dalton's... whatever? is all of this, three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with a tinted-blue Mohawk: it makes us laugh well enough but makes us feel nothing...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Just Not To Be | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...hardworking schoolboy ballplayer who also held down a job; coach's yell of "no, no" as "go, go" and being thrown out at the plate to kill a World Series rally, Yet once again they seem better suited to a newspaper column than to a book of this length...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: Tired Anecdotes | 4/20/1985 | See Source »

These three magnificent performances plus Evett's masterful handling of the ensemble cast more than compensate for any potential minuses in the production such as its length (three hours with a ten minute intermission), and the unsatisfactory nature of the love story. Shamefully underattended last Thursday night, Troilus and Cressida merits three full houses this coming weekend...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Shakespeare Straight & Tragic | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

Demand for the stretched-out sleepers began to heat up after a 1982 congressional decision allowing longer cab lengths without a corresponding cut in precious cargo space. A majority of the 15,000 tractors produced by California's Peterbilt truck company now have some type of sleeper accoutrement. Double Eagle Industries of Shipshewana, Ind., which expects to produce 250 of the longer units this year, has fallen four months behind orders. Made of aluminum to save weight, the mobile home-like sleepers range in length from 28 in. to 120 in. front to back and cost from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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