Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard women's lacrosse squad makes its annual spring break trek to Philadelphia next week, Pew will watch from the sidelines the squad to which she was elected captain last spring...
Hart, wearing black cowboy boots and an ersatz Cartier watch, remains something of a mystery man, a cross between brooding Jay Gatsby from the West and Star Trek's ultrarational Mr. Spock from the future. "I never reveal myself or who I am," he said in 1972. Hart once suggested his relationship with Lee was "a reform marriage": they have separated twice, and reconciled most recently in the spring of 1982. In public they seem distant, rarely glancing at each other or touching. Hart is an avid reader. Not long ago, a reporter suggested he read Ironweed, William Kennedy...
...nothing of research and restoration facilities. For years expansion has been blocked by the fact that one entire wing of the U-shape building has been occupied by the Ministry of Finance, which Mitterrand is now moving to new quarters. The traffic flow of the 3.7 million people who trek through the Louvre every year is chaotic...
Such stuff is harder to pull off than sex-and-money jokes, and Act I occasionally betrays the strain. Random Star Trek and sportscasting segments come across more like The Groove Tube than pastiche; gags spliced in from other humorists without apparent reason--including Tom Lehrer's "Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya" and Monty Python's "No! No singing!"--seem like mere cribs...
...long trek to Williamstown had an effect on the Harvard players, as many of them lost their first games. But then the racquetmen settled down to business and disposed of the Ephmen, four of them winning in four games...