Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Travel reading, when you think about it, is a fairly odd pastime. Essentially, the travel reader is paying someone else, the travel writer, to take a trip for him: not a perilous hunt for the white whale or the source of the Niger, usually, but just a plain old trip. The writer agrees, by implication, to inspect sunsets and pretty girls, to sniff sea air when this is appropriate, to eat and drink fearlessly, to be overcharged by taxi drivers, and to report back. The reader agrees, for some reason, to subsidize this gamboling...
...line is Gait MacDermot, 55, whose The Human Comedy is currently playing at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan. Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel, Comedy is a sprawling, episodic work that contains 84 separate musical numbers and lasts 2½ hours. MacDermot's plain, open-faced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel singing, is ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated. Just as MacDermot's 1967 Hair resonated in the era of tribal-love rock, so does The Human Comedy take...
...five minutes, Harvard lost its composure with a flurry of turnovers and series of poorly chosen just plain bad--shots. That, coupled with the timely pinpoint outside shooting of Lion guard Mark Settles and forward Mark Lay (18 and 11 points on the night respectively), ignited a Columbia rally which gobbled up a six point Harvard cushion and turned it into a 63-62 Columbia lead with 4.04 remaining...
...after each jump, intent for 1 Yz hrs. that every one of them be absolutely fine and clean. For all his spartan talk about pure athletics, Hamilton in action is more than just physically powerful. With his miniature, muscular body (5 ft. 3 in., 115 Ibs.) wrapped in a plain, spangle-free uniform, there is something of the playful otter about him. All good skaters make it look easy, but Hamilton's skating looks inevitable, as if he cannot help but spin and leap across...
...nothing of Congress, which had voted $157 million for the purchases. Finally, he has been passing the peace pipe at private meetings with key environmental leaders like the Wildlife Federation's Jay D. Hair and William Turnage, head of the Wilderness Society. As Clark has made plain, however, in the matter of offshore leasing as well as other conservation issues, the fundamental tenets of Reagan's controlled leasing program will remain unchanged...