Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paramount's triumph comes at a time of sharply increased competition in Hollywood. After a slow start, 1986 turned into a solid box-office year for mainstream cinema; receipts are expected to hit $3.1 billion. Those dollars have been spent on an unusual number of widely released movie offerings: 130 features...
...such events shock us, they are also somehow expected, as if the world were at once in supreme command of itself and superstitious: "I knew that something like this would happen." Perhaps the fact that we are relatively new to the prospect of nuclear war gives us both solid and shaky ground. That fear of annihilation must seem preposterous to you, who either have neutralized it or live with weapons that make our missiles seem like Gatling guns, or both. Congratulations...
Many of the questions that surrounded the Crimson have now been resolved. Even without the injured Jerry Pawloski, the defense has been outstanding. And offensively, for the first time in memory, Harvard is generating solid pressure from all four lines...
...host of other solid performances surround these two central ones. Heather Gunn, as Constance, (or, as husband Wolfgang would have it, "Stanzel Wanzel") keeps up with Sullivan's playfulness and establishes an engaging presence of her own. Zak Klobucher, as the rather dim-witted Emperor Joseph, is suitably laughable; he delivers each and every line with sharply-pointed wit. The Venticelli (Dan Cloherty and Steve Lyne), with their expertly-timed dialogue, also deserve special mention...
Chiarelli has had a solid hockey career at Harvard. For the most part. During his sophomore year, he was taken off the roster for a 15-game stretch. He didn't like...