Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament, which will be broadcast nationwide on the cable network ESPN, is part of Quebec's annual winter carnival. Television coverage will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday night...
...winter of 1986 I passed through La Guardia Airport while on a hectic recital tour of the U.S. In the waiting area was a table loaded with anti- Soviet literature, a sort of monument to the cold war. Above the table was a sign: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE ARMS RACE, YOU HAD BETTER STUDY RUSSIAN. I decided to have a chat with the two cheerful gentlemen who sat sipping soft drinks at the table. I wanted to find out why an American should study the language of Pushkin and Pasternak only if he felt threatened by a Soviet invasion...
...trouble of finding out, how it felt to live in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, when there was nothing better to chew on than last week's game and nothing better to savor than next Friday's. By laconically contrasting images of despair and hope -- bleak winter fields and the throbbing heat and noise of a jam-packed gym in the fourth quarter when the game is close -- Director Anspaugh achieves an admirable objectivity. He neither condemns nor justifies the sporting passion when it is distorted by claustrophobic pressure. He just tries to understand...
...opportunity to perform "slave labor." There, in Tijuana, she would have seen not workers picking oranges for a few dollars an hour, but people begging for food; not housekeepers living in the "slave" quarters of fancy homes, but wretched families living in cardboard shacks that wash away in the winter floods; not gardeners driving beat-up Chevy's, but beat-up human beings for whom the prospect of owning a car is a hopeless dream...
...Scola '87, works out three time a week during the winter months; he misses the varsity athletics he played in high school. Because Harvard varsity sports are such big time commitments, many high school jock-types have turned to House athletics, and recreational fitness programs--especially the basement hideaway...