Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just hoping to get back as quickly as I can," Donato said. "I feel an obligation to the team, being a junior, with all the young guys we've got. It's disappointing to be out just when it looked like we were starting to pull together...
What is the point of all this highly wrought architectural scribbling and juxtapositioning? Why, in a single glimpse, is there brick, tinted glass, clear glass, white glass, white metal panels, white steel, white stone, concrete and red stone? Because to pull off such an improbable collage is a virtuoso feat -- Eisenman is like a chess master playing several games at once while standing on his head. Because the dense, dense eclecticism of material and form prevents the place from seeming too slick and self-serious. And - because Eisenman remains rather perverse. The four painting and sculpture galleries, for instance, amorphous...
True Harvard Spirit: After hosting the yearly dinner with Bok at the New York Harvard Club, the University is providing its top donors with a chartered bus to take them to New Haven for The Game. And Harvard fundraising officers hope the Crimson will pull off a win this year because, as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50 said recently, "Everybody likes working with a winner...
...asked for more investment to help pull a bankrupt Polish economy from "the verge of utter catastrophe" and said such assistance in peacetime is "better than tanks, warships and warplanes...
...family should have to put more than 25 percent of its income into housing," Sanders said. "We could pull out the soldiers [in Europe] and save $50 billion or $60 billion per year from the defense budget. If we put this money towards housing, the problem of affordable housing could be solved in a year or six months...