Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the case of the Harvard Cornell rivalry. This semi-annual clash of the ECAC titans is full of chants and chickens, slogans and shouting matches. A Harvard-Cornell hockey game is as big and as boisterous as a Michigan-Ohio State football contest, particularly when the game is played in Cornell's den in Ithaca...
Campell also expressed disappointment over the selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN) as Bush's running mate. "Picking Dan Quayle--that's like putting the country into the hands of a semi-trained chimpanzee," he said...
...said that because the Med School is a muchlarger institution than any of the otherfaculties, it is much harder to control.Furthermore, many faculty members also work forprivate and semi-private research companies--likethe Eye Research Institute--that are often outsideof the University's control...
When the play opens the lights come up on the living room of the Chamberlaynes. The dim lights, the cozy chairs and the attractive coffee table all do a tremendous job transforming the impersonal Mather House TV room into a semi-fashionable living space. The characters, members of a seemingly elite social set, chat amiably about basically inconsequential matters...
CONTEMPORARY American angstmeister Lanford Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for this play in 1980. Wilson's plays seem to follow their own jazzlike, semi-improvisational rhythm. See what this prophet of malaise does with a would-be love story...