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Lafayette sank two free throws with one second to go to provide the 61-57 final...
...assassination, about two-thirds of those polled said they trusted that Government was run for the benefit of all the people. But as the nation lurched through the Viet Nam years, through Watergate and double-digit interest rates and inflation and the hostage crisis, the national confidence in Government sank until it reached only a little more than 20% in the last year of the Carter Administration. Since Reagan took office, the figure has been rising steadily. It now stands at ! between 40% and 45%, not an overwhelming endorsement of the Government, but surer. In his latest survey, Yankelovich found...
...problem: the whole rock music world seemed to be going nowhere, coming apart. Revenues from the sale of records and tapes sank more than 10% from 1978 to 1979, and no one seemed to have much idea what to do. Bob Pittman's solution: add television and create something...
...Crimson co-captain's antics resulted in his third-ever technical foul. But after Parent sank the resulting free throw to put his squad up, 17-11, Carrabino--and Harvard--came alive...
About two years ago a movie version of Pennies from Heaven was released, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. It sank like a stone at the box office, but it succeeded where this Shrew failed. In Pennies, the brilliant images of the 30$ musicals are shown as the only release of sordid Depression reality. In Taming, the sordid realities of the burlesque theater are stretched to-carry an anachronistic theme of female subjugation. Pennies, for all of its jarring idiosyncacies, was a thoughtful reinterpretation of the American myth of the big musicals; Taming is equally thoughtful, but the theme...