Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornuelle's Cleopatra. Clearly the actress relishes this magnificent role; just as clearly she is worthy of it. The actress has a commanding presence, a voice of infinite shading and variety, a range of expression scarcely paralleled in this college theater. She can break character in high style, or sweep through the audience so that bodies part and heads turn. Her poetic eulogy to the fallen Antony is a cry of meaning to the gods; it is breathtaking...
...posters calling for the purge of Wang and Wu? One explanation is that the posters were intended merely as a warning to hard-line supporters of the radical view who are still in the Politburo. Another is that Teng simply did not have the clout to make a clean sweep of his adversaries. Yet another is that the Vice Premier realized that a purge of the radicals would undercut elements of Hua's support-thereby leading to a potentially damaging split at the top level that could endanger his precious modernization program...
...pupils bring in $5 million in annual revenues and $2 million in profits, which is plowed back into sports facilities for the rest of the.student body. Phys-ed classes at Penn State have first call on the school's indoor arenas, so the Nittany Lions occasionally must sweep snow off their field in order to practice. Says Paterno: "We never had a rug in our locker room. We're more spartan, and it's more of a challenge. We recruit people who belong at Penn State academically as well as athletically. No one is a special person...
Captain Jenny Stone proved equally impressive in the sixth position, allowing only 18 points over her brief 3-game sweep...
...process. The meet stopped while Hackett was taped up by the trainers. Hackett then proceeded to reel off a smoking 9:05 in the race (certainly the fastest time in the nation so far this season), lopping a mere 30 seconds off the Navy pool record, and leading a sweep that tied the meet at eight...