Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vanessa, we learn, has more in mind than just winning PS. It seems the boy's rakish father, a handsome, drunken gold digger who's quite the ladies' man, had an affair with Vanessa years ago. By getting his son, she hopes to lure him back. But Logan, hardly the fatherly type, breezes into town only long enough to tie one on and perhaps sign a new set of papers, beseeched by both sisters for sole guardianship rights...
...part of the University's large scale effort to update its scientific facilities, the Converse Chemistry Laboratories are undergoing a $2 million overhaul designed to keep the lab up to date in a rapidly advancing field and possibly lure scientists to Harvard...
...bestowed unevenly. The new regime finds itself increasingly embarrassed by Sinclair ("General Giant") Zwedu, the military hero of the war for freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing of a police station. He and the husband talk politics; the wife, increasingly unsettled for reasons...
...while the party goes about the momentous business of drafting a platform and picking a ticket. Delegates know better. Like tourists everywhere, they are eager to sample the sights and sounds of the host city. So numerous are San Francisco's attractions that it may be difficult to lure delegates into the convention hall. Herewith a compendium of people, places and things that figure to be conspicuous during the Democrats'week...
...Spring Awakening, Melchior (Jeff Rossman) crouches in an area of the stage placed amid the audience. He faces a "graveyard" of actors, each sitting in front of a television set, eyes riveted on the screen. He listens to the ghost of his dead friend. Moritz (Christopher Moore) attempt to lure him center-stage, into the graveyard. Moritz, heavily made up, gesturing dramatically and Melchior appearing plain and vulnerable under a dim natural light, create a startling contrast. As Moritz describes the wonders of death, the escape from pain, suffering and memory; Melchior listens silently, confused and afraid. Their confrontation...