Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members have branched out to their own groups as well in subjects such as egg painting and book discussion. Shelley Sage, who recently came to Harvard from New Zealand with her husband, a Medical School instructor in anesthesia, says this group and the Neighbors helped her find friends and adjust to this country...
Grocery stores such as Broadway and Sage's have not kept any count of the used containers on their hands; Broadway General Manager John Lichter simply calls the procedure "a godawful mess." "It's a very taxing proposition for us, "notes Stephen J. McCaffrey, manager of One Potato, Two Potato. "We have very limited storage space, hardly enough for incoming deliveries, let alone the returnables...
...easy and formulaic dismissal of Washington as more of the same, that is certainly a posibility. But because of his record of reform and the recent decay of the machine, it would seem more prudent to beed Chicago press sage Mike Royko's injunction for the standard of innocent until proven guilty: "Until he fouls up, give him a chance." Mark Csikszentmihalyi...
...Merlin, the hero is observed just before the Arthurian legend, when the world is a crystalline Stonehenge and miracles are the order of the day. His teacher is a sage (played by Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...
...Tinker has thought a lot about programming," notes Paul Klein, the curmudgeonly sage who was an NBC vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there...