Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wertmuller they can only choose how to submit to the situations that confront them pre-formed. Seven Beauties opens with black and white montage of World War II newsreels, clips of Hitler and bombings, which eventually leads into the wreck that allows Pasqualino to desert the troop train and plunges him into the Nazi inferno. The social conditions constraining the characters' action stand outside the narrative itself, temporally distant, colored differently, and represented impersonally. Only when the situation is fully formed and unchangeable can Wertmuller abandon this abstract style to focus on her characters, who naturally must either accept...
What's more, Go is to Japan what baseball is to America: a national pastime. Japanese newspapers sponsor millions in prize money for Go each year. Children train from infancy to become Go masters. The top Go player in the world--who holds the same rank that Bruce Lee held in "kung fu"--rakes in a six-figure salary. In Japan, Go is where the money...
Hess Yntema, Harvard's All-American swimmer, has decided to take a leave of absence from school this spring in order to train full time for the Olympics...
...celebrations began Friday when an antique private train carrying Lampoon members and alumni arrived from New York. The train did not return yesterday as planned, however. "Apparently one of our alumni got a little drunk and tried to set it on fire," said George Rohr '76, Lampoon President...
...festivities will begin Friday morning with a ride on an antique train for Lampoon alumni from Philadelphia to Boston, he said...