Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacuum cleaner down there--the best," says hurler Rob Alevizos, who adds to the chorus of compliments by chiming in "Rick is a super...
...vacuum created by CRP's absence will allow everyone in Gund Hall a little more space to spread his blueprints while McCue and company rethink the whole approach to urban design. The next dean expects a reshuffling of faculty members and courses and the addition of several new instructors. He adds that other universities may follow Harvard's example in pruning overgrown public policy projects...
...that he will be. On the contrary, he looks very much the underdog. Some party operatives are plainly unhappy with his selection. In Massachusetts, where both Bush and Anderson defeated Reagan, party leaders are not yet reconciled to the Reagan candidacy. Says one: "There's a vacuum of leadership at the national level; and what appears to be the Republican Party's response? A 69-year-old man who has done virtually nothing for years. We're at the same stage the Whigs were. There's no choice...
...Dalene Young do not know how to sustain their story beyond the initial exposition, and they are not much better at writing characters. The two teenagers' love interests (Armand Assante and Matt Dillon) are such bland hunks that the stars must play the romantic scenes in a near vacuum. Most of the campers are stereotypes out of Meatballs and even lesser kiddies' fictions...
Viorst sees students pitying themselves, when perhaps they were just looking out the window, reading the newspapers, opening letters from the Selective Service, watching the death toll on the nightly news. They did not live in a campus vacuum, and too many students today know the terror of being 22 years old and leaving a sombre campus with nothing to do in the world...