Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Crimson stumbled, bumbled, clambered, crawled and begged its way to a 3-7 record. Now, it's simply known as The Fall--falling from Ivy League favorite to a sixth-place tie with lowly Columbia. This season's squad isn't expected to do much better at The Stadium, but the traditional line is never to underestimate one of Restic's teams...
...being an owner, Rose may say he is no party to broad discretions and unfettered agreements, but distancing himself from any baseball tradition might be difficult. It is Rose's place in that tradition, the fact that he is an embodiment of his game, that makes these circumstances so compelling...
Understandably so. It was the first concerto he ever learned, at age 12, under the watchful eye of his mother. It won him first place in a statewide Texas competition. He played it again to win the Leventritt Award in 1954 and again in Moscow. After his ticker-tape parade up Broadway, his debut recording became the first classical disk ever to reach sales of $1 million, and it featured, of course, the dear old Tchaikovsky...
...often a volatile mix. Add sex, and the mix becomes combustible. A case in point: on June 12 Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art abruptly canceled an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, which included sadomasochistic and homoerotic photographs. "We really felt this exhibit was at the wrong place at the wrong time," explained museum director Christina Orr-Cahall. "We had the strong potential to become some persons' political platform...
...insisted that unprecedented U.S. inspections of Soviet nuclear weaponry -- to test techniques for monitoring Moscow's compliance with the proposed START accord -- take place even before any such treaty is completed. Secretary of State James Baker defended the proposal, contending that an early understanding on verification might make an arms-reduction pact with the Soviets easier to sell to Congress...