Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spell 7, written in 1980, is like Hollywood Shuffle without the comedy and without a plot. The Mather House production has some powerful moments and excellent performances, and its political message is compelling. But sometime around the middle of the second, and last act, the performance runs out of steam...
...officers, took a course in basic intelligence gathering. One final exam called for surreptitiously opening a series of sealed envelopes, each inside the one before, and removing a note from the last envelope before resealing the lot. "I successfully extracted my message," says Van Voorst, "but students who used steam were dismayed, because the envelopes had been treated with a purple dye that reacted to the heat...
...degrees F and snowing hard. Bill Hyland, then a Ford aide and now editor of Foreign Affairs, chuckled inwardly at the bizarre spectacle of some of the world's most powerful men walking in a strange courtyard at midnight, befurred heads together like so many frozen caterpillars, clouds of steam rising from their whispers about throwweights and MIRVs...
More than 250 students, including members of the United Coalition Against Racism, Last month staged a 24-hour blockade of an administration building and chained the building's doors so that workers could not enter. After university security official entered the building by underground steam tunnels and locked protests our, the activists decided to storm a meeting of the University Regents. BOSTON UNIVERSITY...
...change in policy toward the rebels? Aquino had reluctantly concluded that her conciliatory approach had run out of steam. Since a 60-day cease-fire ended in early February, military officials said 170 N.P.A. rebels, 115 soldiers and police and 31 civilians had been killed. Pressure from her generals and Washington was also a factor. Most Reagan Administration officials believed that she was wasting her time negotiating with the Communists...