Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeated gestures and tricks that would probably go over on a big stage--say, the Loeb--but look strange on the puny Leverett platform. Ravenal's voice, a pretty, clear soprano, becomes obscured now and then by some Eydie-Gorme-esque whispers, ostensibly for emphasis, and a tendency to park and remain planted in one spot for the duration of a song, much like a 50-mm. cannon. Still, these are minor and seemingly alterable flaws; on the whole, Ravenal's Sarah is an asset to the production...
Next Friday, the thinclads take their string of victories to treacherous Van Courtland Park in New York City for the Heptagonals, where their stiffest competition should come from Cornell...
...Oktoberfest 1500"--Greenwood Consort plays German festive songs. At Newton Arts Center, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville...
...widespread return of basic skills requirements like math, languages and writing, prompts some observers to say colleges are moving "back to basics." Roderic B. Park '53, dean and provost of the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, says educators dislike the term "back to basics" because "it implies that you have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention...
...film opens with Woody walking down the Central Park side of Fifth Avenue, in his familiar rumpled jacket, corduroy pants, nondescript hat, discussing his jokes. It's all very casual. Woody has a lot of ideas, he doesn't try to put in a message or say something, he doesn't tailor his material to the audience because everyone has different tastes. So he simply gets up there, says what he thinks is funny, and everyone laughs. Well, don't buy it. Allen hates improvisations with a passion. He needs to be in control, and from the beginning...