Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here." Among those who have found themselves elsewhere are Suzie, who left Harvard after two years, married a childhood boyfriend, and is now raising a kid in New Haven, and Jeff, who left sophomore year and now works in a bank Among those who may have "lost it" is Shawn, who has tried three times now to return to Harvard each time unable to complete a semester...
...making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist journal The New Masses, Rovere was hired as a writer by William Shawn, then The New Yorker's managing editor. A few years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing a book or play. Thereafter, diffident and a bit owlish, the critic plied the provinces...
Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...
...spectators are expected to watch a superparade that boasts a dozen musical groups, snaking dancers, and floats devoted to ghosts, ghouls and warlocks. At 8 p.m., the height of the parade, a huge spider will wriggle up the Village clock tower. At Area, a trendy nightspot, Owner Shawn Hausman will fill the club with macabre trappings such as a display in which mists rise from a pond awash with skeletons...
Dartmouth All-American Jim Sapienza won the race in 29:25, with Harvard sophomore Paul Gompers finishing 11 seconds later Other Crimson scorers were Andy Gerkin in fifth place (30:18), Peter Jelley in sixth (30:37), Rippy in eighth (31:04), and Cliff Sheehan (31:04). Shawn O'Neil finished as Dartmouth's fourth scorer just one second ahead of Rippy and Sheehan: if the Crimson pair had been ahead, the meet would have ended in a 30-30 deadlock...