Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last season, he shot up to 11-13-24, establishing himself as one of Harvard's top forwards. But, during Harvard's late-season drive for the playoffs, a Cornell player mashed Britz's hand against the boards, forcing him to miss post-season play...
...deeper level, it is hard to miss Albee's a indictment not of any one couple but of Western Society generally. The names George" and "Martha with their definite tone of American, cast aspersions on our first presidential couple. Albee admitted during an interview once that Nick is intended to suggest Nikita Krushchev, and Albee wastes no opportunity to refer to Nick as the proponent of a vast, homogenizing science, as George constantly asks him if he is involved in work with chromosomes and eugenics. In the climatic confrontation between George and Martha. Albee destroys a whole world of little...
...considered virtually required reading in the inner circles of Government and journalism. Says one admiring rival, Robert Novak, co-author with Rowland Evans of one of the nation's best-known columns: "Safire is the most readable columnist in Washington and the one I can least afford to miss...
...half the floor of the Guthrie opens upward like the hold of a cargo ship, white fumes belch forth as from an anteroom to hell. The trolls are quite droll. They are dressed in inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes...
...hard to miss the glaring resemblances in the initial stages of the congressional investigation to a scenario we have encountered before. The refusal of EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford (formerly Gorsuch) to surrender subpoenaed documents, the mysterious use of a paper-shredder to dispose of the documents in question, President Reagan's defense of Burford's obstinacy on the grounds of "executive privilege," the frantic passing-the-buck of various EPA administrators on the witness stand--all of these are too reminiscent of the Watergate hearings to read about without shivering a little...