Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard runner Stein Rafto cannonballed down the relatively straight-and-narrow first mile of the course, and was one of the top four when he breezed across the mile mark at 4:32. Teammates Reed Eichner, Pete Fitzsimmons, and Jeff Campbell were not far behind, and at this point only Dartmouth, Princeton, and Penn posed any real threat...
...about 10:45 p.m. Kennedy's advance men opened a narrow corridor through the crowd, and Kennedy entered, followed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis--who sported a gold Jimmy Carter "Peanut Pin"--and his wife, as well as Ethel Kennedy, the Senator's wife Joan, and assorted Kennedy children...
...control the center, the two moderates have taken conflicing stances within their own party platforms, so that support from both left and right will be scattered in both camps. However, Bentsen's strong support from organized labor may be the trump card that allows him to eek out a narrow victory...
Inside the exhibition, one wonders what all the fuss has been about. Wyeth is clearly what used to be called a petit-maitre. He has staked out a small and somewhat predictable area of visual sensation, a narrow range of images, ideas and colors, and worked it so thoroughly as to exclude all followers. Some memorable works have resulted. The close and beautifully exact tonal painting of a landscape like Brown Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text...
...concert halls that Harris reveres-Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal and Boston's Symphony Hall-has an optimum effect on the sound produced. Like them, the new Fisher Hall is a rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will act as sounding boards. The hall is snugger than before (650,000 cu. ft., v. 850,000), and since any pianissimo needs silence, each air-conditioning duct...