Word: skips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convinced that calendar reform would be that much of a good thing--it would make Reading Period and exams very tight," Skip Stern '81, a member of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, says...
This slim book calls itself a story and reads like a fourth installment of Playwright Lillian Hellman's memoirs. In the latter guise, it is not a sequel but a haunting. Its 92 pages of actual text skip glancingly over the life already set forth in An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973) and Scoundrel Time (1976). This time, though, Hellman seems less interested in setting her record straight than in wondering whether such a task is possible at all. She writes: "So much of what you had counted on as a solid wall of convictions now seems...
...playfully brilliant. Following a sepia-toned clip of a Nazi rally comes a sequence in which Oskar's drumming turns the propaganda gathering into a waltzing Danube of Hitler Youth. As Oskar drums, the Nazi band picks up his waltz, a goose-stepping Nazi commandant adds a back-skip to his gait and a crowd of arms extended in "Seig Heils" begins to sway to the music. Aryan youths pair off to dance, leaving the SS confused and helpless...
Such was the prospect as the end of spring training approached with no new contract between the Major League Players Association and the 26 teams' owners. But then the players' representatives decided to throw the owners not a strike, but a knuckle ball. They voted to 1) skip the remaining exhibition games but 2) open the regular season on time this week and 3) take their walk on May 22, the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, if a new contract is not signed by then...
...look tough. The Red Sox will go as far as catcher Carlton Fisk's fragile throwing arm and the pitching staff can take them. Eckersley's arm hurts, but he should be okay once the season opens, and look for Mike Torrez, Chuck Rainey and bullpen ace Skip Lockwood to have good seasons...