Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee found that the students charged did participate in a deceptive and forcible entry and in the disruption of the normal functions of the offices at 17 Quincy Street, and that they refused to leave the building when instructed to do so by officers of the University. All eleven students charged have been formally admonished. Had the protesters not taken responsible efforts to minimize the disruptive character of the sit-in, the violation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities would have been more serious. The degree of informal cooperation between the protesters and the University authorities at 17 Quincy...
...plays Marty as a likeable, normal kid with only a slight propensity for things exciting and unusual. Unfortunately, it is just this normality that too often makes Marty bland. Caught between the film's comedic and dramatic worlds, Fox is forced to play Marty as a kind of straight man--a constant foil for all the other characters, whether they evoke our ridicule or our compassion. Considering this amorphous, all-inclusive role, Fox manages to emerge with a remarkably substantive character. But mere substance is not adequate in a role that forms the foundation of the entire movie...
...Kesh, a gentle tribe living in the nine towns of the valley of the river Na, somewhere in Northern California. Le Guin's fieldwork into their rites and customs comes decked out with maps, charts, tables and drawings. Also accompanying the book (and accounting for its steeper-than-normal price) is a tape recording of Kesh poetry and music...
...such deaths would be expected in a town with Holbrook's age distribution and population. During the same period, Holbrook men were dying of bladder cancer at a rate more than three times the average, and fatal uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers occurred at more than twice the normal rate...
...heartland, in Winnetka, Ill. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father, Roy Scherer, was an automobile mechanic who left the family when his son was a child. When his mother remarried, little Roy assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once seen Jon Hall swim across a lagoon in John Ford's South...