Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conjunction with the symposium. Houghton Library will present an exhibition of Reed's poems beginning October...
...fairness to OCS, other interests were represented. The Peace Corps and the U.S. Navy were there. As were a few retailers and an advertising firm. A teaching recruiter was present and the computer companies were out in force. But the high percentage of banks and consulting firms left me with the impression that the University was selling us off to a select crowd. Who picked this group? Why are they the only ones with access to Harvard students...
...Walter Mondale's 1984 race and who so far this year is on the sidelines, says, "Gore has passed a threshold of being a credible contender." Some prominent Republicans agree. Says Bill Brock: "While following Al Sr.'s liberalism on a lot of issues, Al Jr. is able to present himself as a mainstream Democrat. He'd be a good, tough candidate in the general election." The leaderships of the Hart campaigns in New Hampshire, Illinois, Florida and Washington State have come over to the Gore camp virtually en masse. In the seven debates to date, Gore's combination...
...diminished levels of the gas. His contemporaries scoffed. Arrhenius, however, was exactly right. In his time, the CO2 concentration was about 280 to 290 parts per million -- just right for a moderately warm, interglacial period. But today the count stands at some 340 p.p.m. By 2050, if the present rate of burning fossil fuels continues, that concentration will double, trapping progressively more infrared radiation in the atmosphere...
...souled men paint still lifes of kitchen sinks; Boorman is a muralist, with epic ambitions and a lust for impossible risks. He has spent his movie career navigating wild rivers (Deliverance) or cutting his way through jungles (The Emerald Forest), plunging into the mythic past (Excalibur) or the hallucinatory present (Exorcist II: The Heretic). Each film is an exploration of the dark places where civilized man butts up against his own primitive soul...