Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WELL, IT'S OFFICIAL. President Ronald W. Reagan will not be attending Harvard's 350th anniversary Celebration. While sighs of relief might be heard from some quarters of the Harvard community, his absence will cast a deplorable shadow on the festivities...
...MAJORITY POSITION wants to have its 350th birthday cake and eat it too. If Reagan's "absence will cast a deplorable shadow on the festivities," then give him an honorary degree. It is a simple sign of respect when someone--especially the President--comes to speak at a Harvard ceremony. If Reagan does not deserve the University's respect, then we should not ask him to come here to speak...
...paper like an Irish pol for two decades before stepping down last year. Janeway, by contrast, was introspective, a cerebral, tautly mannered journalist who had worked at the Atlantic for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine. Given Winship's long shadow over the newspaper, a sympathetic colleague observed, "I don't think Mike ever had a chance...
...based on a smart, funny movie about high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean Penn lookalike, Patrick Dempsey, plays Damone, the school's cool con artist. Bummer...
Perfume manufacturers have successfully promoted new scents by mailing out fragrance strips or inserting them in magazines, and new technology is making it possible for cosmetics producers to use the same advertising technique. Because of a special manufacturing process, the eye-shadow powder sticks to the paper but easily rubs off onto the finger...