Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide range of high-minded goals for the students who participate in the program, ranging from the development of scientific skills to cultural awareness. Fundamentally, the two-and-a half-year-old program attempts to help students from a divisive, conflict-oriented school environment learn to function as a tight-knit group and have confidence in themselves and in each other. And that is a goal that most observers believe the Thomson's Island students are achieving. As Jerome Winegar, federal court-appointed headmaster of South Boston High School, says, "There's no question that the kids...
...bath in the last week. And he tries to light a joint; fourth time defeats the wind and the drizzle. The match illuminates thin, brittle wrists, hollow brown face, crows-feet that are a mockery on this head with eyes that could be 15 or 50, skin drawn tight, and always he's hearing noises that aren't there, following shadows, running scared even when he's sitting down...
Harry Lyme stretched, stood up, and started walking in tight figure-eights. "You know," he said, "the hilarious part about it is that my old try some...now buy some syndrome is so true, girl. You tell yourself for ages that you'll never smoke. Then it's you'll never take pills. Then you're doing both but of course you'd never do anything with a needle, you're not crazy...and then you do...it's like every time you're making promise to yourself and with each time you break one there's that much less...
...fine acting of the tight-knit Next Move Players compensates for many of these script problems. Geraldine Librandi's forceful portrayal of Emma, however, towers above the other, basically two-dimensional characterizations. Only in Librandi's Emma do we get a real feel of personal growth and change in a revolutionary facing triumphs and defeats over a 15 year period...
...victory over Heidi Gurian of Brandies, Pierpont eked by Tufts' Wendy Shahen, 6-1, 6-7, 7-6, in a three-set match decided by two tiebreakers. After gaining the final with a 6-3, 6-2; drubbing of Bulldog Lydia Prypehan, the Harvard freshman dropped a tight match to the top-seed, Marina Nolan, from...