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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard supposedly gave students universal key card access last year, but it turned out to be semi-universal, a phrase akin to semi-pregnant. Currently, students have partial access to restricted areas at restricted times. To which areas at what times is unknown and incomprehensible...
Five years ago, the President of the U.S. couldn't get arrested, at least not in the show-business sense of the phrase. "No one's interested in movies about the President," an agent told me in the spring of 1992, explaining why we had seen relatively few presidential characters on the big screen since the era of Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days in May back in the '60s. "People get enough of him on the news every night. They don't want to see him at the multiplex." This was the conventional wisdom in Hollywood at the time...
Cupp pitched the second game, a pitcher's duel in every sense of the phrase. She had the misfortune of allowing no runs on just four hits in eight innings--striking out ten--but not getting...
...performances were superb. Galway performed the Quantz concerto with a reduced orchestra. He directed the first few bars of the piece, then took up the solo theme. His was a crystalline sound, rich in the lower registers and piercing in the higher range. He attacked the beginning of each phrase and sustained his brilliant sound through each seemingly impossible passage. His playing seemed to be in a different realm from the other musicians. It was difficult to associate the beautiful bubbling sound the produced with notes on a page. The orchestra, on the other hand, was rather sloppy...
Good days and bad days--the bland phrase often used to describe the terrible toll of Alzheimer's--connotes balance. In fact, for Reagan, as for all other victims of this degenerative brain disorder, the good days gradually diminish and the bad just get worse. And as with other victims, it's not easy to pinpoint the onset of Reagan's disease. Because he occasionally fumbled details in the 1980s, some speculated that the symptoms started to appear while he was still President. But he had been prone to odd gaffes for decades...