Word: nets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February 1, 1988 wasn't any different, either. The Crimson couldn't hold on to a two-goal lead. Harvard had to spend more time killing penalties than putting the puck in the net...
...only the subject of network news reports but also a sought-after guest on TV talk shows. CBS's 60 Minutes has shot a segment on the maverick educator, and Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to his life story ("six figures," plus a percentage of the net, for Joe), with Sidney Poitier as a possible star. "Isn't it something," Clark beams, "that this little black Newark welfare boy is the most popular man in America right...
Andromache is a production of mordant humor, bitter irony and moral force -- if also of significant miscalculation and highly uneven acting. Some of the performers are tripped up by Eric Korn's half-arch, half-vernacular translation, in which vulgarity and clumsy colloquialism ("Is death the net result of all my love?") clash with the neoclassicism of the set and costumes. The plot is a sour inversion of the lovers' tangle in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Orestes (Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy...
...intemperate: a photo of what appeared to be an African child kissing the rear end of a cow and a cheeky suggestion that Schleuning might direct her energies to eradicating such practices. Then came another round of correspondence, in which Fallon McElligott sent Schleuning a pith helmet, a mosquito net and an offer to pay her expenses to Africa "one way." By this time, Schleuning had alerted the St. Paul-based Minnesota Women's Consortium, which mailed copies of Fallon McElligott's letters to the press and some of the agency's clients...
What prompts all this frenetic activity? With a secure place in the annals of musical theater, a personal net worth of more than $200 million and all the creature comforts that attend such a favorable balance sheet, Lloyd Webber would seem to have everything. It may sound like an old joke, but rich and famous as he is, he still craves one gratification: critical respectability, especially...