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...strike was only the precursor to more violence. When university administrators met to determine how to punish the strike leaders, students protested again, occupying Hamilton Hall and building barricades at two of the main entrances to campus...
...slope was familiar, and 67 other competitors that day survived uneventfully. Her death emphasized for athletes and audiences alike the inherent risk in the Olympic goal of pushing "faster, higher, stronger" to the limit. It also underscored a hard lesson every competitor learns in death's little precursor, defeat: Luck is more than half of life...
...foreign ministers of Croatia and the Serbian-led rump state of Yugoslavia signed an agreement in Geneva to improve their relations and to open diplomatic offices in each other's capital beginning Feb. 15. Diplomats feared that the separate Serb-Croat agreement could be a precursor to overt military cooperation against Bosnia...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Until the Ship Sails" at 7 p.m. The precursor of the Greek "New Wave," this film demonstrates the unique features of both the modern Greek cinema and the extremely individualist director/actor Aliexis Damianos, who won for this film the best director prize at the Hyeres Film Festival. Reception...
...illicit pleasures of marriage." His sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling applications of paint, is a far cry from the violent and dramatic Prometheus. Illustrating an open-air party of fleshy, amorous aristocrats dressed in satin, Garden of Love is an obvious precursor of the eighteenth-century fete-champetre popularized by Rococco artists such as Watteau...