Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calavita's success is due in part to Vermont Coach Tom Brennan. Brennan, who coached at Yale, has a lot of experience working with big centers...
Sweet Charity: Harvard has hit 89 of its 127 free throw attempts this year for a 70 percent success rate. That's a little off from last season, when the Crimson shot at a 71.1 percent clip...
...Gitelis, director of the bone bank at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. The once frozen ligaments and tendons may not properly hold the knee together, and the original cartilage may fail to cushion it from shocks. "I would wait at least a year to proclaim success," he adds. Even so, says Mankin, "I'm all for it. If Schmidt has solved the problems of this operation, I'll be doing it next week...
...With success came creature comforts. Sondheim splurged in 1960 and bought a Manhattan town house after the movie sale of Gypsy. He still lives there, in an East Side enclave of houses that share a sprawling back garden with low brick walls, small fountains and mossy enclosures. Katharine Hepburn resides next door, but they did not meet until nearly a decade after he moved in. "I was up one night at about 3, pounding on the piano, writing The Ladies Who Lunch for Company, when I heard this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka...
...electronic advances and marketing hype, industry watchers still wonder whether the pricey toys will sell. Even as their numbers multiply, the novelty wanes. When Teddy Ruxpin first appeared, it captured the fancy of parents and children alike. But its phenomenal success ensured relentless imitation, so that this Christmas the talking-toy market is saturated. Of all the new dolls, only the Cabbage Patch Kids have made it, so far, onto Toy & Hobby World's latest list of the Top 20 toys. The Kids -- both talking and nontalking together -- rank sixth...