Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah was also cool about the wearing of animal pelts ("I'm sort of against it"). Besides, to prepare for their prehistoric personas, Hannah and the rest...
...found such items of acknowledged excellence, but high price, as Dunhill cigarette lighters, Rolex watches or Leica cameras. Sears does not try to lead the customer to new and esoteric, and sometimes useless, products. Says Joseph Batogowski, senior executive vice president of merchandising: "We are a mass merchant. We strive to carry not avant-garde goods, but the current state of mass America...
...band will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose...
Others came to pay tribute to their alma mater. "It's a great feeling to be a part of an institution that continues to strive in all fields. It's Harvard's greatness," said Carl A. "Peski" Pescoscolido, the holder of the Harvard record for the longest kickoff return (98 yards against Dartmouth...
...taken better advantage of the College--"if only I knew then what I know now." But we did not; certainly I did not. Both as a middle-aged alumnus and as a dean. I have come to the conclusion that college is something which happens to us, where we strive to do the best we can with whatever limitations we have; and that we continue to change and grow in each decade which follows college...