Word: watching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark My Words: Harvard split end Mark Bianchi should be one to watch in the Ivies this year after the game he had against Army. Bianchi caught five passes for 89 yards, including two touchdowns, one of which was a 13-yd. fumble recovery that gave Harvard a 14-0 lead...
Coach Wayne Lem was about to pack up and head for home at that point, but he and his team stuck around to watch a set or two of the last match before the semifinals. As it turns out, they were very glad they...
...progress, Zouping represents what can be called an altered sequence of development. Like much of the rest of the country, Zouping is experiencing the telecommunications and electronics revolution before agricultural mechanization. It is possible to stand in a field in Zouping and watch wheat harvested exactly as it was 2,000 years ago, by sickle, and then to look up and see the giant satellite dish that links the town with Beijing's Central Television -- as incongruous a sight as that of Chinese businessmen furiously pedaling their bikes through the capital as they speak on cellular phones...
...What we have today is a lot of talk about ending corruption and nepotism," Wu continues. "Just like we've heard before. But unless we finally get serious about such things, we will never build our New China. We will watch Chinese on the outside rise in even white societies because of their industry and intellect. We will never catch...
...follow Braque as he patiently constructs his first real masterpiece, Violin and Pitcher, 1910, is to watch a classical sensibility throwing itself into the flux of uncertainty and coming through intact. Chardin still lives beneath the silvery buckling planes of the pitcher, and every one of the hundreds of angles at which the shallow facets of the picture impinge on one another seems both provisional and immutable. But this -- let alone the far more abstracted paintings of late 1911, in which the thinnest of clues to the identity of objects (a pipestem, a playing card) swims in a vaporous gray...