Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Axinn's language tricks--In Which The Poet Uses Words In More Ways Than One. Trying To Milk More Meaning--only succeed in making the poetry more ambiguous. In a poem called "Indian Shell Ring Loop Trail,"--a title distinguished simply by containing many unrelated nouns--the poet writes...
...grace derives in part from Director Tim Hunter's brisk and unpretentious style, an ability to find the values in a scene efficiently, nail them down and move on unfussily. One would like to call it American classicism, if that phrase did not have such a forbidding ring to it. Mostly, however, the joy of the film arises from the acting of its central roles. As Mason, Jim Metzler conveys solidity without stolidity, commonsensicality without priggishness. It is the sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially so when paired with...
...owners say that there's something un-American about the union demands, that the players and their pinkish lawyer, Ed Garvey, are out to undermine free enterprise itself. But the owners bowls of socialism have a decidedly hollow ring. In the first place, NFL stadiums are built and maintained at public expense. Most of the players themselves are trained for their NFL futures at state funded universities. And the owners enjoy a virtual monopoly in their sport as a result of a generous anti-trust exemption granted them by Congress--and they are currently lobbying the Senate for an expansion...
...although the argument has an appealing ring to it, it is moot. Other universities and colleges as Owen acknowledges, simply do not have the kind of alumni wealth that makes Harvard's capital drive--the largest attempted by a college--possible...
Putnam says the CHA is looking to acquire additional housing units. He says prices for housing "in the ring around Harvard" are too high, but in areas where public housing already exists--primarily North and East Cambridge--there are still affordable units...