Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PLAYING: Remember last year's Grateful Dead-turned sour-turned R.E.M. concert? It was one of the first appearances at Harvard by a big name band, and council members were reported to be working last term to swing the Temptations for a concert this spring. Whether they'll come through is still unclea, but the council's social committee has acted to unsure enlivining student life in at least some fashion this semester. About $4000, half the social slice of the government's $60,000 pie, has been set aside to distribute to House committees for sponsoring campus wide House...
...Supreme Court's vacillation can be seen in the various votes of Justice Harry Blackmun. In 1983 he cast the swing vote, agreeing with the majority to stay Stephens' execution. Then he reversed himself three weeks ago, voting with the new majority to lift the stay. Then, just hours before Stephens was executed last week, Blackmun reversed himself once again, voting that a stay should be reimposed because of the unresolved question of systematic racial bias...
...being purred on a rumpled-up bed by a woman who has missed an entire night's sleep and is still bright-eyed. When I Fall in Love is both heartsore and heartfelt, Falling in Love Again a music-box minuet that turns into a full-swing romp, and the classic Billy Strayhorn title cut a cocktail lounge elegy of elegant despair. Barroom or bedroom, Lush Life is right at home...
...opening scenes feature the nightclub antics of a group of tuxedo-clad young bachelors. They who booze it up and swing (literally) from the ceiling pipes--Keezers visits the Hasty Pudding Club. There is a constant supply of suitors and young fops to hang out at Shylock's nightclub, where the bartender, played by John Frederick, does an admirable acting job both as Launcelot Gobbo and the tippling drinkmaker Salerio (Richard Rutowski) and Solanio (Peter Vrooman) clown remarkably well in these scenes: they are especially endearing when they mock Shylock's cry of "My daughter, my ducats," bat somewhat abrasive...
...support proving as much a hindrance as a help. That is what happened on Election Day. Up against a popular President and a humming economy, union leaders were simply unable to call home the once monolithic "labor vote." What is more, the union label alienated many of the swing voters-yuppies, independents and moderate Republicans-whom Mondale needed in order to defeat Ronald Reagan. "The public is looking for someone who works for them," says Political Analyst Alan Baron. "It doesn't mean they hate labor. It just means they want somebody who's independent...