Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rookie goalie Tom McCabe made a questionable foul with only eight seconds remaining to set up a successful Crimson penalty kick. The game went into overtime, and Princeton saw what looked like a sure win turn into the first of a series of losses when D'Onofrio netted the game-winner to give Harvard a 5-4 triumph...
Chet Atkins, on a stage in the bright sunshine of Jackson, Tenn., is warming up the crowd. He stands with Pat Boone in front of the Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village, named for the famous train engineer who lived there at the turn of the century. Atkins, the genius of American country guitar, is singing now: "Would Jesus wear a Rolex...
...bother reaching for your calculator. To turn this 100-digit monster into its indivisible primes -- as in reducing 15 to the product of 3 and 5 -- would ordinarily require the undivided attention of a supercomputer for as long as two months. But last week the record-size problem was solved after just 26 days by a group of more than 50 smaller machines scattered across the U.S., Europe and Australia...
...typical of Sontag that she would turn a personal preoccupation into an occasion for larger reflections. Her collected work is a map of her consuming passions: the French writer Roland Barthes, the German critic Walter Benjamin, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. (In her spare time, she has directed four films abroad.) All her work aims at defining a vaporous but crucial notion, the modern sensibility. She combines a metropolitan taste, omnivorous and hard to satisfy, with a transatlantic mind, drawn to European writers and filmmakers. Often she discusses them in the European form of fragments and epigrams. "I get impatient...
...been resolving to devote all her time to fiction -- and failing. "Essay writing is part of an addiction that I'm trying to kick. My last essay is like my last cigarette." She quit smoking two years ago, but there's still one more essay she plans to turn out, this one about intellectuals and Communism, taking as its point of departure the disillusioning trip that the writer Andre Gide made to the Soviet Union in 1936. And then there's a short book on Japan. And then . . . Well, at least the tube won't be distracting her. The houseguest...