Word: swains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MANY HIGH SCHOOL wrestlers recognize their own mortality during their senior year? They are painfully abundant in the recent movie Vision Quest. Louden Swain (Matthew Modine), concluding that you are born and then you die, decides to starve himself and train hard enough to drop two weight divisions and take on the most feared wrestler in the state, Brian Shute, as his grand fling into the nothingness that awaits him. Louden is a jock going for the gusto, a nihilist wrestling for a Michelob Light...
...fundamentalists were jubilant at their victory. Said Sheridan Road Principal Bill Swain: "We knew our position was strongly supported by the Bible. We thought we had the Constitution on our side. But I didn't expect to get a favorable decision." William Bentley Ball, a leading constitutional lawyer who argued for the two schools, called the judgment "very strong on religious liberty, clarifying the right to teach and the right to learn...
...undulations of plot-mistaken identities, furtive meetings in a forest haunted by impish spirits, a magic ride across the midsummer night sky, even an arrow that pierces the heart of one swain (Tony Roberts)-are meant to recall Shakespeare's Dream. Ingmar Bergman painted a lovely gloss on the subject in Smiles of a Summer Night. So why can't Allen have more fun with it? No film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody...
...seeming shortage of some kinds of engineers may be caused by high-technology companies openly stockpiling the skilled workers so they will have them on hand when the economy turns up. Says John Swain, Phoenix manager of college recruiting for Intel, the computer-chip manufacturer: "The tendency is to hire rather than not to hire, even if you don't have an immediate need." This policy is straining engineering schools because the salaries are luring away students at the bachelor's degree level and discouraging them from going into teaching with higher-level degrees...
...early going...Robie, a four-year senior, had never played number-one prior to yesterday's match...The Tigers will arrive in town tomorrow in early preparation for Saturday's big match...Boyum played impressively at the Cowles Championships, losing, 3-2, in the quarter-finals to Joe Swain, a former penn player. In the preceding match he defeated Frank Brosens, who played number-one for Princeton three years...