Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students also provide a variety of reasons for choosing Harvard over other night and part-time schools in the area. Liora L. Gates, 28, of Jamaica Plain, is a scientist for Cambridge-based BioGen. She says she chose Harvard because it was conveniently located near the research firm...
...Thursday--Plain old horse steak no longer being chic, the Faculty Club goes bankrupt. McDonald's outbids Wendy's and takes over. New on the menu is the McH.L.T.: They keep the horse side hot and the cool side cool...
...parks at the center, a plain, deceptively large building that backs on St. Michael's Church, with its odd, elongated acorn spires. Geraldine and Mary Paul attend 8:30 Mass every morning, but they have no time for other formal daily prayers. There is no religious cast whatever to the center. On the ground floor are a reception room and Geraldine's office. On the upper floors, staff offices, consultation rooms, a large "family room" used for parties and group sessions. The top floor constitutes the convent for the two nuns. This is their place of privacy...
...Russell's day, the '50s and '60s, "a good white forward" was the N.B.A.'s notion of the Holy Grail. Everyone was out searching. The common anxiety over Caucasian attendance was as plain as the pale nose on every twelfth man's face. And it was expressed in the extreme whenever a team like the Atlanta Hawks traded Paul Silas, a great forward, for Gary Gregor, a white one. Sixteen years later, the mind still reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority...
...filmmaker as gifted as Spielberg can cow or neuter his talent forever. The Color Purple is speckled with epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating...