Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young families have not been investing heavily in IRAs. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. in Winston-Salem, N.C., reports that 70% of its customers for new IRA accounts are more than 45 years old. Says Terry Gray, 33, a father of two who works as a security guard in Jackson, Miss.: "Inflation really keeps us from saving. We're not making enough to save...
...would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish lefthanders who throw aspirin tablets and wear CAN'T MISS tags if they stay out of the hitters' wheelhouses. Joy is back in Mudville...
...triumph of Hill Street Blues has been to make the passive viewer pay attention-to the interwoven plots, the overlapping dialogue, the busy background of bodies and emotion. Police Squad!, a deftly dippy sitcom now midway through a six-week run, demands the same attention. Blink and you will miss the Tower of Pisa looming outside a window in "a neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant...
...review of the production of Happy Birthday, Wanda June which appeared in the March 17 edition of The Crimson. Obviously, it is not my place to question the reviewer's opinion of the show. What I do question is the ethics involved in the choice of the reviewer Miss Joseph reviewed the play after having auditioned for a part in it and subsequently being rejected. No matter how objective she may have attempted to be in her assessment of the show, she could not help but to enter the audience with some sort of negative bias. Further, there...
...production, and I make no claim to know how favorable a fair critique of my production would be. However, it seems that a review written by someone who tried to be in the show and failed cannot possibly be a fair critique. It was unethical and irresponsible of Miss Joseph to accept the assignment of reviewing Happy Birthday, Wanda June, and it was equally unethical and irresponsible of those editors who knew of this situation to allow the article to be printed. At this point, I can only hope that in the future the editors will take their journalistic responsibility...