Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That little piece of research spelled doom for the green stuff on the walls of Lowell and Winthrop Houses, both of which, during renovations, saw their ivy torn down this summer and supplanted with rather less attractive metal scaffolding...
...ineffective. They fail to realize that the organization is only a reflection of its members--most of whom have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The last we heard of the group, it was booting the Ivy colleges out of Division I. That's hardly the stuff of which cleaning out the system is made...
...everyone in the oil-cleanup business is enthusiastic about Seaclean. For example, Joseph Nichols of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation considers chicken feathers just another absorbent and "small-scale stuff," not suitable for containing large spills at sea. Nevertheless, cleanup crews may need all the help they...
Since the imposition of martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...
...year so far: Richard and Linda Thompson, British musicians of formidable gifts and marginal celebrity, release their sixth album, Shoot Out the Lights. It is a record that has no contemporary equal for surpassing a particularly difficult goal: working the simple tragedies of the everyday into the stuff of folk legend, and letting the stories flow through melodies that seem to have been tapped from some deep Celtic wellspring. The music, fresh, strong and startling, has ancient reverberations and contemporary overtones. Each song has the clenched power and pitiless clarity of a Francis Bacon painting...