Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though the team played more confidently than it did in Friday's blow-out at Villanova, the Crimson could not keep up with the physical St. Joseph's squad. Led by freshman center Kate McPeak, who scored 15 points and snared six rebounds, the Hawks went up, 25-20, at the half and pushed and shoved their way home...
...Though Maggie Topkis is fine in several scenes, particularly when relating the story of her first and last high-school love, she has none of the delicacy and fragility that link Laura to her glass animals. And her acting is annoyingly obvious at times, showing instead of feeling...
...quibbles with director Kathy Lo: Tom and Jim wear suits though they both labor in a warehouse. Why? Tom's makeup is too heavy, almost feminine. A subtle grittiness is missing. Also, Tom gives his narrator speeches front and center stage, not separate enough, not isolated enough. A perch on the fire escape/balcony, even a stroll nearer the audience would have been a nice touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle...
...Though Powell was unable to fence Saturday against SMU, the Crimson clinched the win in a match that wasn't as close as the score indicated...
...imperialism and international Zionism." There was not a shred of evidence for the accusation, and U.S. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter promptly described it as an "outright, knowing lie." Indeed, the assailants were fundamentalist Muslims whose opposition to all Western influence is similar to Khomeini's archaic views. But though the U.S. has no quarrel with Islam, the report of U.S. complicity was widely believed in Islamic countries...