Word: retreater
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...deans of Harvard's 10 faculties, along with President Neil L. Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, hoped the wooded campus of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences would be a peaceful setting for a productive academic planning retreat. Instead, they were disturbed by a rally of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
...Fire Island beach near New York City, weekenders are peacefully sunbathing when the wind suddenly rises, blanketing them with swirling clouds of pollen. Coughing, wheezing, their eyes tearing, some of the bathers beat a hasty retreat from the beach. "It was just like yellow smoke," says an awestruck city dweller...
...same will do just fine. Maybe the tunes are less ersatz Beatles than upscale Archies: gourmet bubble gum. Maybe some of the lyrics took less time to write than they do to sing. Maybe the entire album marks Ringo's retreat to the simple life. But to this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise...
...which responded by firing their weapons into the air and lobbing tear-gas canisters nearby. Bush's Secret Service detail had no choice but to hastily surround the President and his wife, hurry them off the platform and into the armored limousine and, with guns drawn, beat a hasty retreat from the ensuing chaos...
...invasion of their middle-class retreat has horrified Fisher's neighbors and those of her alleged victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. The throng of reporters has turned life near both houses into a kind of theater. At the Fisher home on a quiet dead end and at the Stitch N Sew fabric store owned by Amy's parents a few minutes' drive away, doors are shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this...