Word: pits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd that had formed around the sand pit for the finals became hushed as Johnson bowed his head and began the approach of his first jump. As soon as he left the ground it was obvious that this was no ordinary leap. Before the length was announced the crowd burst into applause, and once the official announced the 24'7" distance, the applause became frenetic. Hartman had two more chances to top it, but neither jump came close, so Johnson took the event, besting his own personal record by over a foot, and missing the University record by inches...
Kudos to Massachusetts on becoming the eighth state to adopt a bottle bill [Nov. 30]. During our summer clean-up campaign we found beverage containers far surpassed paper-type litter. No matter what the bottle industry claims, their product has made our beautiful Arizona desert the garbage pit of America...
...Party's call for unquestioning loyalty, exclaiming that if you purge dissent you purge what's unique in a man, and he's answered by a tremendous explosion that signals a White-army attack. That's a good, absorbing scene, one of a couple in the second half that pit idealist against politician. But they all have that Robert Bolt-Q.E.D. quality. Bolt's latest play; in fact, State of Revolution (1977) is an absorbing, overly tidy account of Leninism disfigured by and dissolving into Stalinism, and there are echoes of it all over Reds. Reed and Emma Goldman...
...deeper issues: the need to be sensational in order to sell papers; the importance of a broad interpretation of the First Amendment, even with the danger that the power of free speech will occasionally be misused; the protection of journalistic sources versus protection of the public. Designed solely to pit the ordinary guy against the villains of organized power, both journalists and government bureaucrats, the movie discards any subtlety that might undermine the clarity of the message...
Saturday belongs to the Harvard and Yale marching bands. After a full morning of rehearsals, the two groups will, in the words of Yale drum major David Polinsky, "shinny on over to the Bowl, leaving at least a half an hour for flogging through all that teeming humanity, with pit stops to play for alumni, and a one o'clock curtain...