Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While patrician orchestras such as Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia, with their large subscriber lists and potent fund-raising capabilities, continue to operate without a financial loss, others are almost perennially troubled. The Buffalo Philharmonic, nearly $1 million in debt, scaled back its season last year from 48 to 40 weeks; the Detroit Symphony, suffering along with its city from the recession, has an accumulated deficit of nearly $2.7 million. Despite Rostropovich's name value, the National Symphony showed a $2.2 million loss last year...
CONSISTENTLY, Anderson's most oblique attacks are the most potent. The creepy Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden), is a brilliant 1980s cross between Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove. He sings the praises of modern science while placing a human brain in a blender and then proceeding to drink the elixir. He creates a patchwork-quilt human being out of the spare parts of patients, and when the head he has selected proves non-functional, he thinks nothing of lopping one off of an errant news reporter (Malcolm McDowell). Yet Anderson has by now amply made his point about the ominous potential...
...talent-laden lax squad--seeing its first action since last weekend's 27-1 thrashing of Holy Cross--had trouble playing up to its potential yesterday. The Crimson's usually potent offensive attack could muster little challenge to the smaller UMass defense...
Above all, we hope all current seniors inclined to contribute to a class gift of any kind will support this potent alternative effort...
...complex and dangerous world about the need to pursue arms control and international amity. But precisely because it is a complex and dangerous world, military national defense is likely to remain necessary for many years to come. In 1969, ROTC's banishment from the Harvard campus was a potent symbolic gesture of opposition to a cruel misconception of national defense. Today, however, it simply prevents young people from reaching worthy goals of national service and personal betterment, and closes the door on potentially humane developments within the military itself...