Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's basketball team continued to drive in reverse by dropping its 18th game of the 1981-82 season yesterday evening, 71-64 at Brown's Marvel Gymnasium...
That's what Harvard women's basketball Coach Kathy Delaney Smith had to say after Brown edged out the Crimson, 69-67 Saturday night before 1.622 fans at Marvel Gym in Providence...
...arrangement of the book suggests that Doctorow is not altogether happy with the stories. The first, an agreeable family anecdote about a secret kept from an old lady in a nursing home, could be told as a one-paragraph joke. But the third is a small marvel, a conventional short story that works, and the only one of the six whose vibrations resonate after the last page is turned. A boy sees his mother making love with his tutor. The child cannot prevent himself from telling the dreadful secret to his father. The narrator, who was the boy, relates...
...sterling cast handles nearly all of Jewel's haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...
...techniques used by the Blaschkas were known by all glass artisans of the time, one museum official says, but Harvard's flowers are generally considered both "an artistic marvel in the field of science and a scientific marvel in the field...