Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James rewarded Roby's faith in him. With both the shot clock and the game clock winding down, James drove left but missed a 10-ft. jumper. However, he stepped in, grabbed the rebound and put in a short jumper over three Golden Eagle players...
...ever start to drink at all? The short answer is that initially it made me feel better. Alcohol numbed my self-awareness, the same trick that it performs for nonalcoholic drinkers at cocktail parties. The difference is that normal drinkers dull their self-consciousness only slightly, the better to socialize. I very quickly tried to send all my thoughts and feelings about myself to oblivion. Psychologically, I was undoubtedly depressed when I began to overcome my well-founded but ill-understood fears about alcohol: my father died when I was a sophomore. For whatever reason, I spent the better part...
...floor exhibit at the ICA is organized according to different periods in Sherman's short career. Her earliest photographs are "film stills," small black-and-white pieces in which she assumes the role of an imaginary starlet caught for the camera in a contrived Hollywood moment. Already in these early works, which date from the late '70s, one sees the artist's preoccupation with her own transformed image. The film stills reflect, says Sherman, "the role playing that everyone does through life...
...only times that the bill came close to being ratified in the past was in 1983 when, after gaining House approval, the Senate voted it down by one vote. The last vote, in 1985, fell short in the House by 23 votes...
...happy with the progress we've made in two short years," said second-year Harvard Coach Wayne Lem. "The way we played in the tournament has definitely given us respect from the other teams...