Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hello Again often succeeds at being funny, but maybe too deliberately so. The relentless barrage of one-liners tends to inspire nervous laughter. The "death" jokes, for example, prove to be of the worst taste: "I wouldn't have been caught dead in that dress," "I thought I'd never live to see the day," "Conquering death, that was a killer...
...Crimson has its own goaltending phenom in junior Denise Katsias, who warded off relentless Brown pressure with several brilliant saves. Aided by some fine defensive plays from Tri-Captain Jane Grim and sophomore Erin O'Brien, Katsias kept the Bruins scoreless until well into the second half...
Americans have an "insatiable appetite for a longer life," complains Daniel Callahan, 57. They should be "creatively and honorably accepting aging and death, not struggling to overcome them." Medicine, Callahan chides, ought to "give up its relentless drive to extend the life of the aged," who in any event are often "being saved from death for chronic illness, with Alzheimer's as a tragic example." It is time to honor a "natural life-span" that normally winds down in the late 70s to mid-80s, he says. "How many years do we need to have a reasonably decent life...
...Leverett House production manages to transcend the play's ludicrous premise and make its audience laugh. Part of the reason is that the play does have some indestructible one-liners, like Mortimer's "Insanity runs in my family. In fact, it practically gallops." Even the relentless attacks on theater critics are funny. Really...
...musicians' relentless musical activity may be a reaction against what they perceive as Harvard's stifling live music scene. Heiberger complains that there is "not enough demand for live bands" among Harvard audiences and house committees that are "too easily pacified with disc jockeys." There is also the problem of finding practice space in the houses...