Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watched the place turn around from a feeling of second-class citizenship in the University to one with a real feeling of pride," Bloom, who was a student at the GSD from 1970 to 1972 and who has been a full member of the faculty since 1976, added...
Next morning, the full Supreme Court briefly considered Spenkelink's appeal and voted 7 to 2 to turn it down. In New Orleans, a panel of three federal judges deliberated into the night, then rejected it too. Spenkelink's lawyers appealed once more to the Supreme Court in Washington. At 9:50 a.m. on Friday, only ten minutes before the scheduled execution, the court refused again, by 6 to 2. Almost immediately, Spenkelink, his arms heavily manacled, was led into the death chamber next door...
...high school kid who is tops in drama won't see his name bandied about in local newspaper headlines. The Boston Globe goes so far as to publish a list of Harvard's (and other area colleges') top high school "recruits" in football, basketball and hockey. But turn to the arts section of that same paper, and you won't find a list of orchestra recruits, acting recruits or singing recruits...
...Miss Lavore had been known to say, is not as easy as it looks. There are other women--Josette, a fading Boston Brahmin, or Juanita, the daughter of a Lexington trainman and his hardworking wife, who for no apparent reason became a prostitute. Her family does not disown her, turn her out, but continued to love her--what else? --and as venereal disease began to waste her, answered for her. "Juanita is not feeling well today," her mother would say. There are some lots that must be escaped, even if it means turning into a pillar of salt. "Gentlemen," Hardwick...
...from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, is up to something a good deal more ambitious. He is continually questioning, then undermining the idea of what is funny. "Andy takes a lot of risks," Zmuda says. "What performer in his right...