Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, however, as speakers on the Stars & Stripes tender boomed out the boat's theme song, Danger Zone, from the movie Top Gun, the skipper who lost the America's Cup had come a long way toward putting some glory after his black mark in yachting's record book. Conner's 1983 defeat by Australia broke the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak. This time, Conner has heeled over, hunkered down and blasted to a comfortable -- and unexpected -- 3-1 lead over the fiber-glass-hulled New Zealand in the best-of-seven series to determine...
...nasty as he is, has tender spots available for Hennie, as frustrated by a "necessary" marriage as he is by his whole life, and for old Jake, who, defeated and cast aside, still manages to impart some of his idealism to Ralph. With all this going on, the play is stately in pace, complex in structure, with all sorts of subplots and developments over three long acts. As Yiddische Chekhov, it dwells on the domineering mother, the sniveling new wealth, and the slow death of the beautiful and the valuable under the crushing weight of modern avarice. Naturally...
...October 8, the University planted a New Jersey-grown tree in Harvard Yard to commemorate the 15th year of Derek C. Bok's presidency. Pencil-thin, the young sapling had a mere seven leaves on its tender branches...
...FLAME! BABE MAGRATH BOTRELLE SHOOTS HUSBAND " 'CAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE HIS LOOKS"! A family album of three contentious sisters who laugh and fight and cry and finally surrender to the bond of sororal love. Directed for film by the guy who coaxed Robert Duvall to his Oscar in Tender Mercies. Can't miss...
...School for the Deaf and the Blind, joined by Stevie Wonder. Charles was "tremendously touched" by the moment and thrilled by the whole event. "Never, ever, in my career have I gone someplace where people purposely, directly entertained me," he said with some awe. Ball was especially moved by tender remembrances of her late former husband and partner Desi Arnaz. The weekend-long celebration "was the epitome -- the absolute epitome," she said. "I hope I never get another award, because nothing can ever...