Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton humiliated the Big Green; the game's statistics show that Dartmouth was lucky to lose by only 16. Tiger Cris Crissy ran for 106 yards--29 more than the whole Dartmouth team--caught two passes for 47 yards, and highlighted an impressive Princeton attack that accumulated 360 total yards to the home team...
...along that thread. "Applause is our oxygen." he says, and the more vociferous, even hysterical, the better. He feels that his voice blossoms before a 'hot" audience. When he began giving concerts and recitals, however, the intimacy with the audience and the absence of operatic costumes caused him to lose concentration. Now he sings to an imaginary listener, whom he pictures in the center of the balcony, in order to keep his chin up and throat straight. "It could never be an actual member of the audience," he says. "It would be disastrous if he blew his nose, or yawned...
...Pavarotti, reaching a top note brings on a mystical feeling such as a champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance...
Margaret Thatcher and her administration also stand to gain considerably from a peace settlement, and to lose if the London conference collapses. For one thing, Thatcher needs a foreign policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks and austerity measures imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe. For another, she would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like...
...future, to talk with the PLO would not "build up" a dangerous organization, or condone terrorism. It would simply acknowledge reality: the PLO holds, if not the key, at least one of the keys to any future solution, and would lose it only if it allowed itself to be separated from the inhabitants of the occupied territories. Arafat, so far, has shown remarkable powers of survival and diplomatic skill. A solution will require the involvement of the Palestinians from the occupied territories, Hussein and Arafat. It is precisely because they know it that Hussein himself, and the leaders of Saudi...