Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Samual L. Jackson, Willis "Pulp Fiction" co-star, fills Vel-Johnson's empty partner slot as Zeus, a former cab driver, current Harlem store-owner and hater of thieves drug-dealers, and white people. After saving McClane's life early in the movie, Zeus comes along for the ride, helping McClane to solve the riddles and do the things that "Simon says." (The film-makers are careful to use every pun and nursery rhyme they can think of with the name Simon...
...competitive schools in the country; to remove the real commonality of house life is to remove the last bit of harmonizing power that prevents the Harvard campus from becoming totally disintegrated and anonymous. Harvard students need a home for their four years here, not a socially engineered, computer-assigned slot. Only by retaining a high degree of choice and autonomy in housing decisions will Harvard students have such homes...
...BART EVERSON, A couple of goofy, twentysomething guys from Bloomington, Indiana, are sick of small fame. For three years their satirical public-access TV show has played to critical acclaim in the greater Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global Village Idiots...
...never thought the first slot should be afull production," Rouse said. "I can't imagine a[student] director who would put themselvesagainst a visiting director and the Pudding, fordesigners and for actors...
Freilinger objected to the idea. "Making theother mainstage slot in the spring a joke--whichis what one-acts would become--amounts todegrading the mainstage and will do nothing tohelp theater at Harvard...