Word: victor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jeffreys has found it with Escape Artist, which is enjoying reasonably steady but not spectacular sales. It may be that Jeffreys' music is too highly charged for mass consumption and, perhaps, too overstuffed. Lyrically, the mystery kids show up side by side with Victor Hugo and V. Van Gogh. Jeffreys' ambitious and sophisticated synthesis of rock, reggae and jazz could easily become top-heavy...
People always ask how much the combined reunions and Commencement cost the University. Victor Koivumaki '68, the co-chairman of the Commencement Planning Task Force, said last week. But because the organization of Commencement week is divided among several organizations and financially "each tub is on its own bottom," no one can estimate the total cost of all activities, he added...
...problem with The Game this year was that everything went exactly the way it was supposed to. Yale strolled into Cambridge as the favorite, and strolled out as 14-0 victor and Ivy League champ...
...last January, with its powerful, complex effects, was all ceremony and TV. Many veterans want chiefly to be thanked for what they did, for doing as their nation asked. They crave an acknowledgment, a respect from their fellow Americans that they have never had and may never get. The victor always gets respect, even if it is of a shallow and predictable kind. The veterans of Viet Nam are entitled to a deeper, different respect: the kind that goes to someone who has endured deep anguish, even failure, and survived...
...ones who make money writing about it, and it is the Wallaces of course - father, daughter, mother and son-who have reduced the practice to its final and most lucrative essence: an encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters, lessers, do between the sheets. How was Napoleon in bed? Or Victor Hugo, Eva Perón or Virginia Woolf? Just ask the Wallaces. (The short answers: terrible, terrific, often and rarely...