Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This past summer, while most of us were thinking about anything other than school, a researcher compiled the results of a Harvard-initiated survey of conduct and honor codes at 100 schools across the country. The study was done at the request of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence, who says only that his curiosity arose after several faculty members urged him to consider whether Harvard should have a code...
...exaggerated GQ-Cosmo style closeups, ST. ELMO'S FIRE (Sack Charles) overexposes itself as the vampire of the summer's lingering movie releases in two ways. For the obvious, whatever thoughts may lie within the well-posed actors' heads photograph as lamely as Dracula's own mug shot. Simply put, "Assume the Missionary Position," invites something other psychological speculation...
...phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo), brisk direction and more laughs than at least half of the teen films released last summer. Stir Crazy's challenge, like that of all the network newcomers, will be to keep it up every week and try to become a new habit...
...entire universe." So he goes on watching: a pair of mating tortoises, giraffes in a zoo, the cuts of meat in a butcher shop, the ruins of a Toltec shrine in Mexico, the flight of migrant starlings in his native Rome. Even while tending the grounds of his summer home, he feels the key to cosmic understanding within his reach: "He no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn...
When the Federal Government was fully reassembled last week after the long summer holiday, all eyes were on the White House. Reagan took the stage at his dinner for Denmark's Prime Minister Poul Schluter. Somber aides hovered at the edges of the party through the evening, sometimes darting close to confide something to the attentive President. Anticipation was etched on his face. He turned to his lovely dinner companions, Lisbeth Schluter and Katherine Evans, editor of the Washington Journalism Review, and explained: "If somebody comes up and whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly...