Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wollaston layout was designed by famed golf architect George Fazio and boasts a 73.5 rating, the highest in Massachusetts. Water threatens only eleven holes, many of which sport sharp doglegs and prominent woods...
Monastic Life. On the other hand, Hesburgh for all his years at Notre Dame has continued to sleep on the same iron cot in his tiny room at nearby Corby Hall. The shelves of his outer office are stacked with cans of orange juice and Campbell soup, a sharp reminder of his monastic life. His rickety hot plate sits on the counter. It is the mark of an asceticism that Ted Hesburgh seems to impose on himself-almost as though he felt a need to reassure himself that he still is a priest. "After all these years, 1 haven...
...dark. Then the fairy chorus is on stage, high voices piping "over hill, over dale..." and the stage, mostly bare of scenery, comes alive. What strikes the viewer, in addition to these spirits' freedom from Tinkerbell-ishness, is the 'fairies' self-consciousness and rather awkward stance, in sharp contrast with their lyrical singing. Harvard is hardly teeming with good dancers, but their absence in the opera rather detracts from the unearthly effect created by the music--these immortals are so obviously of-this-world. They wear a few wisps of gauze, to be sure, but leotards in purples and greens...
...Clipper was approaching ramp C4. It angled at about 45° to the left to join the taxiway in a short loop leading to the head of the runway. The Clipper had passed C3, which headed back toward the terminal in a difficult turn for a big plane. Another sharp turn onto the taxiway would be required. Pan Am officials were later to explain that the crew considered C-l inactive because it was blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only about...
...soon after Fun with Dick and Jane (TIME. Feb. 7), the movie runs the risk of being dismissed as another middle-class crime caper. But unlike Dick and Jane. Crook yields to no glibness. no gags, no cheap shots at the System. Goretta's comedy arises from sharp but sympathetic observation of the ways in which ordinary, well-meaning people stumble into one sad mess after another. Christopher Porterfield