Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decareau added fielding grace to his batting might. Eli cleanup powerhouse Al Kolesar led off the sixth with a fly to short-right center. Decareau, who had been stationed near the line, needed more than his great jump to reach the ball. Risking an error, Decareau dove to his right and snagged the ball just before both landed...
...this issue is the second appearance of a new department, Critics' Choice, which will offer brief reviews of outstanding books, movies, records, concerts and plays, as well as a short list of notable television programs. The section, which will appear on alternate weeks, is written by and reflects the collective intelligence of TIME's cultural critics. In an age cluttered with entertainment options, Critics' Choice aims to help readers choose their diversions wisely...
...annual meetings, said scholars who have attended the three-day retreats in the past, speakers spend five or 10 minutes making short presentations and then the congressmen and academics have informal discussions. Aside from the budget, those in attendance often discuss electoral politics, they said...
...soccer manager Alexandra Barstow '88 arranged the soccer team's NCAA tournament trip to Connecticut. on short notice. "You don't know about it until the week before," Barstow says. "I was calling home to my mother and getting her to look things up in the phone book...
...part of the Winthrop House Literary Series, DelBanco read his soon-to-be-published short story "The Writer's Trade," about Mark Fusco, a young author riding on a train that runs over a woman's body. The event leads to the protagonist's realization that his ambition to write great fiction can trivialize the very situations he depicts in his work...