Word: pack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only be thankful that George and his pack are allowed to maintain their autonomy of lupine identity--they're not vested with comforting little anthropomorphic traits that would make them seem at home mowing our neighbors' lawn. In fact, it is Mowat who consistently tries to come closer to the wolves' style of life, as his attempt to approximate their diet (mice) and territory-marking habits illustrate. These two comical and slightly disgusting episodes grow out of the film's deeply serious message, that it is not for us to quantify and tame nature, but simply to live...
Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard'45 joined the demonstration. She condemned President Reagan for pursuing a "shameful" and "totally racist war" in Grenada and criticized the Administration's statements on the situation as "a pack of lies...
People turn where they stand into living X rays just before they disintegrate entirely. Fire storms swallow up towns. The images of destruction, mild for a theatrical movie and practically gentle by any factual measure, are still startling by American television standards, and they pack force. Once this montage of immediate death ends, however, The Day After has to get back to its characters, which is to say that it must run on empty. Nuclear annihilation may be the subject, but the film appears to have been the victim of an editorial chain-saw massacre. Whatever the executive reasons...
...1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force of 3 g's. In competition with a pack of cynical road jockeys) Muldowney proved herself an astronaut of asphalt-a woman with the right stuff...
...Germany, and sports a litany of crew honors--six times on the U.S. national team, his two Olympic appearances, a 1970 trip to the World Youth Rowing Championships in Greece, and a total of five visits to the Royal Henley Regatta in England Wood definitely is the bettor's pack...