Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospect of the new dean coming from the outside is minimal, however. "I would say the chances of the new dean coming from outside the present Faculty are very slim if not non-existent," one Law professor said this week. "This seems to be the accepted view among the Faculty...
...sinks onto the cluttered couch of gold brocade, dropping a leather jacket on the floor beside him. He squints. His cold, blue eyes do battle with the yellow afternoon sun that streams through the foggy windows before him. He stretches, his tall, slim body, stretching in the warmth like a lithe, tense cat. His beard is cropped close, ash-blond, almost grey in the translucent light, and blends, quite unostentatiously, with his shaggily trimmed hair. His eyebrows-enormous tensile spans that arch across his brow-seem to be all that is holding him together, so much so that you forget...
Shortly thereafter, Bender flew to Los Angeles to observe Taylor as he put the finishing touches on his new album, Mud Slide Slim. After the recording session they repaired to Manager Peter Asher's house for more talk into the small hours of the morning. "It was a little like Night Beat," recalls Bender, "sitting at a table with a tape recorder in the middle, cigarette smoke curling round a light bulb overhead...
...best and steadiest national record sellers since the loudest days of Beatlemania. Sweet Baby James, his second album, has already sold 1,600,000 copies and, along with his hit single Fire and Rain, has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. A third album, Mud Slide Slim, will be released next month. Last month, Taylor was included in the predominantly classical Great Performers series at New York City's Lincoln Center. He has just finished a movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, for late spring release, and last week he began a sell-out national concert tour of 27 cities...
Going into the meet, the Crimson did have a slim chance of finishing in a first-place tie with defending champion Princeton but the Tigers disposed of Yale, 21-15, Saturday to remain undefeated in the league. Harvard's final Ivy mark was 5-1, the one loss being a 22-12 defeat at the hands of the Tigers. Yale finished third with a 4-2 record...