Word: note
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Advocates of Question 1 note that the proposal would not allow the legislature to prohibit abortion in cases in which the woman's life is in danger. That is the most narrow exemption one could conceive. Meanwhile, victims of rape and incest would be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Question 1 is not a limited measure; it is a potentially sweeping assault on abortion rights in Massachusetts...
...Four crown. But with that goal now out of reach, Harvard--already out of the race for the Ivy League championship--is hoping to string together victories in its final three games of the year against Brown, B.U. and Yale and finish its season on a high note...
...same. By the '60s, movies were an indispensable tool for marketing any hot new group. Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night pinned the larkish wit of four Liverpudlians on top of the world; Bob Rafelson's Head (co-written with Jack Nicholson) was a brilliant, bilious suicide note from the Monkees to their die-hard fans. Today rock helps sell nonrock pictures from Top Gun to Rocky IV. But it took David Byrne to bring the music back to its roots, to secure it in the mouths and guts of his True Stories tellers...
...wanted nothing more than to "go to the movies and drink Coke." Harriman was the only Wise Man ever elected to public office, and that was for a single term as Governor of New York. He and the other solons shuttled between Government and business, "substituting for each other," note the authors, "like lines in a hockey game changing...
...commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner" was not that of a neoexpressionist but of a virtuoso; his drawing lacks the tenacity of an Eakins, let alone...