Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each year, thousands of lesser-known Americans learn the hard way that buying a handgun does not assure protection, but only future trouble. They buy handguns with the expressed purpose of protecting themselves, only to end up using them during family spats or lovers' quarrels with tragic, unforeseen results...
...testing spot for large-scale sculpture. Anything displayed there must face not only the permanent collection of pieces by David Smith, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero and other virtuosos of bigness, but the setting itself: a mountain with sweeping green ledges and infolding valleys whose scale can reduce lesser work to mere bibelots. Tucker's show, which runs through October, survives both comparisons...
...Fortune, Eastwood the auteur is an imposing ambassador for American star quality. It so happens that the film he brought to Cannes, which he directed but does not appear in, is no great shakes. It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never quite explains how Parker enriched the language of sound. Still, the film was well received, and Bird was expected to win one of the top prizes. Instead, the Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror, and Bird was given lesser awards...
...when it comes to the major spectator sports--football, hockey and, to a lesser extent, basketball and baseball--gender is most definitely a factor in attendance patterns. In all of the above sports, except for football, Harvard features both women's and men's squads. The men's teams get the crowds and the coverage, the women's teams get a sprinkling of dedicated fans--roommates, parents, friends...
...been found in the burned remains of the couple's garage, which Bulloch admitted torching. He claimed that his wife had choked to death accidentally during an episode of sexual bondage. Though he faced the death penalty for murder, he drew only a seven-year prison term on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Frustrated prosecutors have now moved to try him for arson...