Word: lightened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has already moved to lighten the burden on the housing system, by not accepting transfer applicants next year. In addition, Radcliffe will admit only 10 transfers...
...ideologically split court. While one Justice speaks of another as "a great storyteller, quick with very funny stories about cases he's tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody might say in the middle of a rape-case discussion, 'I think the central question here is the same problem we faced in that antitrust case a few minutes ago: Was there consent?' It doesn...
...where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...
Argent's tendency to lighten everything they do has lessened their importance. They are one of the five best unknown rock bands in creation by choice. They seem content to play in the rave-up mainstream of English rock: albums of two rave-ups, mediocre blues, and a couple of tunes to acknowledge roots in R and B. Argent's strong point is simply that they do what they do so well with the assistance of one of rock's finer keyboard players in the tradition established by Steve Winwood. It's not a taxing, or particularly innovative music...
...rise high in show business-even so stratospheric a celebrity as Chaplin-and there comes an evening of the long knives. For Chaplin it came early and never seemed to lighten. After a series of affairs with leading, supporting, featured, walk-on and crowd-scene actresses, Chaplin took up with the adolescent Lita Grey. A relative of Lita's had news for her paramour: in California, dallying with a minor was statutory rape. Charlie and Lita were married in November 1924. She was his second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation...