Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
...BEGINNING of this decade, Harvard embarked on an aggressive campaign to patch up its longstanding differences with the Cambridge community. University officials set up neighborhood advisory boards to solicit local residents' opinions on town-gown matters. Cooperation between Harvard and its neighbors peaked in 1981 during the planning of a nearby office and condominium complex...
...BEGINNING of this decade, Harvard embarked on an aggressive campaign to patch up its longstanding differences with the Cambridge community. University officials set up neighborhood advisory boards to solicit local residents' opinions on town-gown matters. Cooperation between Harvard and its neighbors peaked in 1981 during the planning of a nearby office and condominium complex...
...BEGINNING of this decade, Harvard embarked on an aggressive campaign to patch up its longstanding differences with the Cambridge community. University officials set up neighborhood advisory boards to solicit local residents' opinions on town-gown matters. Cooperation between Harvard and its neighbors peaked in 1981 during the planning of a nearby office and condominium complex...
...seventh, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) eighth, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 15th, and Gremlins (1984), which he did not direct but developed and "presented," 17th. Only his pal George Lucas, with whom he collaborated on Raiders and Indiana Jones, approaches that patch of box-office ionosphere; and Lucas, at least since Star Wars eight years ago, has delegated the directing of his films to other hands. Spielberg is very & hands-on; as Director Martin Scorsese puts it, "Lucas became so powerful that he didn't have to direct. But directing is what Steven...