Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still dark when the retinue sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square...
...that they can develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker the real sentimentalist for letting those two familiar septuagenarian faces get to me. But it seems, simply, that here are two people who can act and act well, even if the roles...
...weeks of Lau's college hockey career wind down, the numbers pile up. He enters tonight's game, for example, with 1811 saves, just 110 behind Harvard record-holder Bruce Durno. He has played almost 4000 minutes in the nets for the Crimson despite missing two months of his freshman season with a knee injury and four more games after getting hurt last year. He also has a chance of becoming the first Harvard player to win back-to-back Beanpot MVPs...
...women weight watchers, the battle of the bulge is often lost at the hips. No matter how they exercise, excess pounds seem to pile up there and at the buttocks and thighs. But at last there seems to be some compensation for the pear-shaped. (No, not another grapefruit diet.) According to Dr. Ahmed Kissebah of the Medical College of Wisconsin, overweight women whose body fat is concentrated below the waist run a relatively low risk of contracting diabetes, a frequently serious disease that disrupts the normal metabolism of sugar into energy and afflicts one out of 20 Americans. Conversely...
...modern world," capable of "radiance," but likely to produce "an unbearable disturbance of the general peace." Two characteristic sketches deal with The Decline of Sport and the Crack of Doom. Though White does his best, neither is funny. Sport ends in 1985 with a flurry of statistics and a pile-up of 1,482 cars, "a record for eastbound parkways," and 3,000 dead. By that time Americans all take portable radios to football games to hear other sports events, while a huge TV screen behind the goal line carries horse races from distant Belmont...