Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play focuses on seven tenants in a lower class section of Trinidad whose one-room shacks open onto a common yard. They are a disparate group: a family of four, a working single woman, a young man who dreams of leaving the island, a prostitute. Their interactions provide the basic fabric of the plot, but the play is always dominated by their material circumstances--the fact that they live near the bottom of a highly stratified society, and that there are very few paths out of the world symbolized by their yard...
Harvard did not return empty-handed from Princeton, where the tourney was held, as Sukie Magraw '78 won the Ivy League Women's Singles title. "She's much better than any other woman in the league--no one can touch her," Maskin says of Magraw. She is the only female good enough to play on one of the all-male teams in the league...
...could not shake the sense that some of the clearest memories I have of the past four years--being locked in a narrow jail cell with 50 other people after the anti-war demonstrations at the 1972 Republican Convention or walking down Brooklyn streets with a green-eyed woman--have nothing to do with Harvard...
...observant could refuse them. But there are new discoveries here, too--and they are perhaps even more intriguing, because less famous. Ammi Philips's Portrait of Harriet Leavins (1815) strikingly modern in its primitiveness; or Ingres's Study for Andromeda, a fascinating closeup of a lone marble woman that lets you see how Ingres sculpted his figures to achieve that smooth sensuality of form; or Monet's Fish (1870) whose glinting gold and silver scales formed of his brushstrokes, are the perfect fusion of technique and subject; or Sargent's Breakfast...
...Some things The Book of Lists does not say about lists: a) they can be boring, silly and stupid (in 1976 visitors to Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Museum in London selected Twiggy as the most beautiful woman in the world); b) they are a poor key to civilized achievements ("Diets of 10 Famous People" includes Michelangelo and Billie Jean King); c) they lack plot development...