Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago and a jayvee player this year--made the trip because of the absence of the four Harvard seniors... Harvard returns to action Saturday against the University of Pennsylvania...If Harvard is to garner one of the four NCAA postseason bids this year, it'll now have to pull several upsets on its southern trip next week, when it'll face top ranked Temple and second-ranked Maryland...
...however, Harvard couldn't quite pull...
...comic theater, directors are faced with certain temptations. Very few actors, for example, can pull off a good Russian accent, and the cast members of The Good Doctor are not among this elite. If Goldman had dropped the Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic...
...Administration did pull its act together in one respect last week. Reagan admitted that Budget Director David Stockman had been "blowing his cool" in painfully candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel...
...loss of U.S. funding, which accounted for 25% of the annual budget, has plunged UNESCO into a financial crisis. To make matters worse, Britain and Singapore have announced that they will pull out at the end of the year. West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark have also threatened to withdraw if reforms are not made quickly, and Japan and Canada have hinted they too might leave...