Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cagers' next quest for a road victory will come tonight when they play Princeton at Jawdin Gym in Princeton, N.J. Harvard will have another streak working against it here, since it has dropped its last six Tiger showdowns...
Like virtually all had predicted at season's start. Penn. Harvard and Cornell are the front-runners in the quest for the coveted Ancient Eight crown...
...five Roman Catholic schoolboys getting cute in the confessional and decapitating a statue of their school's patron saint. Mischief pairs a wimp and a stud in the small-town '50s. In Tomboy, Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling mat. One can find vagrant felicities in these films: a snap to the style of Tuff Turf; the bang-on casting of young actors with unassimilated Irish-American faces in Heaven Help Us; and in Vision Quest some nice quirks of dialogue...
...three other CCA councilors are expected to throw their weight behind their colleague's less restrictive proposal. Additional support will come from Cambridge Mayor Leonard Russell, who, according to local observers, agreed to back inclusionary zoning a year ago in return for the help Sullivan lent him in his quest to be mayor. Ordinarily, changes in the zoning laws require six votes on the council with former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci possibly holding the swing vote...
...meant that following the Dead around the country was what they had accomplished for the year. Such wandering is considered not goofing | off but commitment. There were yuppies, who had flown out from New York and paid their fares with plastic. But the stoniest of the pilgrims followed their quest in the elderly bread vans and decommissioned school buses painted with rust primer and furnished with curtains and the kind of mattresses that are chucked under lampposts at 3 a.m. On their windows were stickers showing skulls or tap-dancing skeletons, talismanic to the Dead...