Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plain and simple reason that taking partisan stances will inevitably discourage some volunteers...
...Eccentric Teapot by Garth Clark (Abbeville; $29.95). Why pour your oolong from a plain pot when you can pour it out of Brooke Shields' head? Whether they are teapots for art's sake or art for the sake of taking tea, ceramics critic Clark has cataloged the fun. The Kentucky Fried Teapot has the head of Colonel Sanders and the body of a plucked chicken...
...apathy with regard to the El Salvador issue makes the draft notices so appropriate. It might be true that many students have not involved themselves with COCA's cause, and this is probably true for a variety of reasons: perhaps some students who work in addition to studying just plain don't care (though that is hard to believe). The point is that these people (myself included) have a right to choose their issues and to be secure from undue harassment from those who have to make different choices...
...Adamec, whom they view as the key to bringing Czechoslovakia such reforms as interim power sharing with the opposition, creation of a multiparty system and curbs on police powers. By week's end Dubcek was calling for still more change. Addressing a vast throng on Saturday in Letna Plain, a parade area overlooking Prague, he said the Politburo shuffle alone "did not meet the demands of the people." The government, he added, is "telling us that the street is not the place for things to be solved, but I say the street was and is the place. The voice...
...Just plain Lou Holtz. The name doesn't resonate like Knute Rockne or George Gipp, men around whom the legend of Notre Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the Fighting Irish. Nor does it seem of sufficient luster to be mentioned in the same sentence with Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, coaches who won multiple national championships and were subsequently canonized by fanatic subway alumni. Holtz would be the first to agree with all this. "All I ever wanted...