Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTE BOOK: The water polo team received a warm welcome upon its return to Cambridge Saturday night at 10:30. Senior Tim Maximoff, unfamiliar with Cambridge roads, created a minor traffic jam by accidentally driving the team van up Dunster Street--a one-way street--the wrong...
Sperry's research, carried out over three decades, forms the theoretical basis for much of the modern research into how the brain processes information. Previously it was thought that one hemisphere of the brain was dominant, and the other was a minor one that lacked the capacity for higher mental functions. Working first with test animals, Sperry surgically severed the network of hundreds of millions of nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres. He discovered that the animals could still perform learned tasks when stimulated solely on one hemisphere, but that the other hemisphere could be taught to perform similar...
Hell-bent or Heaven-sent [A minor retrospective.]--In the Mean Streets you watch him and feel nervous, conservative. He's out there on the edge, way out there, pushing it, chancing it, going much, much too far, and you wish he'd stop it. He's a compulsive gambler named Johny Boy who flouts all the rules of the petty Mafia, who never shows up even when it's most important, who just won't behave, and he seems live to make it all worse. It's pathological, but he won't quit. It makes you feel mealy...
...added to the sense of confusion. More recently, a Reagan Administration's effort to back South Africa officially in certain areas has become clear, most prominently its pledge to veto any resolution in the U.N. security council explicitly condemning Pretoria for its invasion of Angolan soil. In addition, several minor but concrete concessions have been made by the U.S. to the South Africans, most notably a plan to increase the number of military attaches in each country...
Live Fast. Die Young [A Minor Retrospective]--Dean only made three movies, all of them differing grades of terrible. Giant is a movie that seems to run for at least six hours for no reason at all. East of Eden is an embarrassment; a heavy handed and unsophisticated piece of moviemaking. Rebel Without A Cause is almost unbelievably lame...