Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeking of the three main characters would fit in well at any number of dorms in the Yard. The scene in which Leo and Otto, after Gilda's departure, set about getting drunk with refreshing and hysterical earnestness is particularly reminiscent of freshman year. But all three are nonetheless shallow and inherently unpleasant. Unfortunately, the Huntington's production lacks the finesse that would make these sophmoric characters captivating at the same time...
...easier to say why none of the teams ought to win-slumping superstars, shallow bullpens and error-prone infields-than to predict which one eventually will do so. "Pitching's going to win it," claims Expos Manager Bill Virdon, intoning a baseball verity. If so, perennial bridesmaid Montreal should have a slight advantage on the mound. Still, Ace Hurler Steve Rogers, the first pitcher in the N.L. to record 17 wins this season, has lost three of his last five games. Top Reliever Jeff Reardon has muffed eight critical saves, causing such consternation among Montreal fans that they even...
...order has many profiles, not all of them visible at the same moment. Fifteen years ago, it was more or less obligatory for American critics to focus on the "radical" formal aspects of Manet's work and, in particular, on his use of flat (or at least shallow) pictorial space. Lone figures like The Fifer and Matador Saluting were posed against a background too flat to be a room, too brown to be outdoors; it was no more than a neutral backdrop, an exaggerated version of the depthless space behind Velásquez's portraits and some...
...Long Beach, Calif, women's shelter, seeking a divorce. Whalen caught her in her lawyer's office parking lot and begged to hold the couple's small child. He then ordered Betty into his van and drove off. Three months later her body was found in a shallow grave in the desert; she had been shot in the face. One of Whalen's former wives reported later that he had threatened to kill...
...Central America, it is not in geopolitical terms. The danger, he says, is that a Communist takeover would send a flood of refugees over the Southern border that would cost the U.S. millions of dollars. Conservative Columnist William Safire calls Clark "living proof that still waters can run shallow...