Word: vies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and Yale, are usually the last game of the year and can make or break a season. Regional or instate rivalries like Texas-Oklahoma or Miami-Florida can be among the most hotly contested. Most of the students have friends at the other schools, and the coaches annually vie for the best recruits in the area. Third are the historic grudges like Army-Navy or Notre Dame-Southern California, non-conference show-downs built on a tradition of excellent football. Any rivalry can turn a season around; a team with a losing record likes nothing better than to trip...
...director does create a few inspired and captivating images. The knights vie for Thaisa as hockey-masked, business-suited drag racers; the final act heightens Pericles' dejection by portraying him as a dirty bearded Howard Hughes bum in a box: a single swinging light on a black stage conjures a violent storm. And the opening, with narrator Brother Blue emerging from a turquoise pool of light and fog, works well. Simple scenes in the hands of Sellars can become striking: the discovery of Thaisa's coffin by villagers plays hauntingly, though many other poignant scenes fall flat. Background music takes...
...addition of one scholar clearly cannot go far in bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered to vie for the new slot does not augur well for the futures of this grassroots approach...
Officials say past history indicates that the council faces an unusually difficult task in erasing such a do-nothing legacy. The council must not only produce more than positive, visible changes in student life, they say. In seeking long-term support and attention, the government also must vie with better established extracurricular organizations--such as publications, drama societies, and athletic teams--that have traditionally proven the activities of choice on campus...
While four of their teammates vie to represent the U S. Greg Chalmers and Shayne Kuklowicz (both still under grads) accepted invitations to the Canadian Olympic tryouts now being held in Toronto Goalie Grant Blair also received an invitation but declined to participate...