Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second-year freshmen Coach Blocker Meitzen has a strong group of Yardlings in '87, and after impressive wins against Penn, Dartmouth and MIT, the frosh seem capable of improving on last year's second-place Eastern Sprints showing...
...chances for the Heptagonal crown nesting in Cambridge this spring seem bleak. Both the Harvard men's and women's track teams opened their outdoor seasons this weekend, and both look to have problems making a run against the Heps favorites...
...whole, Pubis Angelical does not live up to the expectations created by the skillful writing and the intimations of impending revelation. Sometimes the recurring plot elements seem to repetitive, a passionate lover after passionate lover turns out to be a spy; sometimes the exaggerated characters become only tiresome stereotypes. Some passages can be relatively tedious, such as the tired political debates relived over and over in Ana's hospital room the repeated philosophizing on ideal relationships between men and women. Dialogue often tends to be melodramatic...
...fresh tone of Julio Cortazar. Finally Pubis Angelical is not successful when considered as a whole. The three interwoven parts of the narrative do not converge to a single story; they are not unified by a definite connection between the characters, and their similarities do not, in the end, seem very convincing. The optimistic, peaceful conclusion of the novel is nice enough, but does not seem adequately prepared; the message does not fit the story...
...recovers from Iranscam. Gary Hart's nominal supporters, according to last week's New York Times/CBS poll, are not committed to him yet, and old questions about his character are likely to resurface, at least temporarily, when the campaign heats up. Both parties have growing lists of challengers who seem likely to command a share of delegates without breaking out to win a majority. Among the Republicans, for example, former Senator Paul Laxalt said last week that he is forming an exploratory committee and hopes to announce formally in September. "Most Reagan conservatives," he noted, "are still searching...