Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LITTLE MERMAID. You could wish upon a star and not conjure up a more joyous animated movie than this graceful retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. In 82 minutes, it reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment...
Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought...
Last week, however, the Chancellor blindsided detractors and heads of state from Moscow to Washington with a far-reaching plan for binding together the two Germanys. By declaring his wish for a "confederation" of his country and East Germany just days before the Malta summit, Kohl pushed to the fore the issue that nearly everyone else would like to tippy-toe around, preferably for as long as possible...
Excerpts From FAS's 'Wish List...
...phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...