Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student who witnessed the arrest said that when she came upon the scene the suspect was already on the ground, and a woman police officer was sitting on Smith's neck. The student, who asked not to be identified, said that the officer was yelling obscenities at Smith and that the officers carried Smith by the neck and the back of his belt in to a police car. "It looked very brutal," she said...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) could not have found anyone more involved with the current political scene than Richard Hatcher. Now serving part-time as a senior advisor to Presidential hopeful Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Hatcher was the vice chairman of Jesse Jackson's national campaign this year and chairman of the Jackson campaign...
...contrast to such hyperpituitary passages, On the Waves opens with a comparatively terse Venetian scene: "In the churning wake of a motorboat from one of the luxury hotels, the gondola bobbed with graceful disequilibrium. The tall, thin, handsome man sitting in the gondola gripped the sides of the small wooden craft and said to his seven-year-old daughter, 'Hold on.' He thought, Gondolas are atavistic." Never mind that adjectives here are pulling more weight than they ought to bear. The real problem is the terminal apercu. Nothing that follows in this brief, intermittently charming story about...
...their Big Green rivals. The Harvard Crimson Sports Cube will be there. Besides the action up at Dartmouth, the Harvard women's volleyball team continues its quest for an Ivy title today at the MAC against Columbia. Catch the Cube on Monday for complete coverage of the Harvard sports scene...
...Mahdi said that the prize is a belated one, adding "There is a whole new generation of novelists and play-writes who have taken over the literary scene. He was a great figure but the excitement of reading him was 20 years ago. He has done his deeds...