Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's opening night Especially if you aren't used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...
Pithier assessments could be ob| tained at Beirut airport, where preparations for the Marine withdrawal -were already under way. "There doesn't seem to have been any point in all those Marines dying," said Corporal Stacy Spina, 22, of Williams, Minn. "Sometimes you get mad at the politicians and the world." Lance Corporal Charles Johnson, 22, of Louisville, Ky., told how he was looking forward to getting out. "There is no sense being here as sitting ducks," he said. "We are not serving any useful purpose." As he spoke, Army trucks loaded with diesel generators rumbled by. The convoy...
...team returned victorious this weekend from its third and final meet of the winter at Mad River Glenn, Vt with an overall record strong enough to carry it to the championships at Syracuse. The women's cross-country squad led the team's scoring, as it has all season, with an overall first-place finish, and men's cross-country captured second place in the "special" race behind a so-far undefeated team from Johnson State College in Vermont. Johnson State has been Harvard's only unbeatable rival in cross-country this season, says Allen...
...first to fall is Guglielmo (Michel Vitold). A repressed homosexual (and, more significantly, a repressed romantic), he cannot hold his true nature back when Edo, as he renames their prodigy, appears. What drives him mad is not open acknowledgment of his secret, but the boy's indifference to it. What's all the fuss, Edo sleepily wonders, about the central issue of his would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when...
...Harvard men's and women's ski teams both scored strong finishes in their nine-team meets at Mad River Glen, Vt. this weekend, good enough to advance them to the Division II championships next weekend at Syracuse...