Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What can one say about Kevin Bacon's performance except that its enough to make one wonder whether or not he's the same person who played the delightful Fenn in Diner. One-sided would be a good word to describe his portrayal of Casey, and the only reason that comes to mind that might explain why he took a part in this film is that he probably needed to make a house payment at the time...
...understand that yours is a student newspaper with primarily student concerns. At the same time, I could not help but wonder how much coverage you would have given to the release of Nelson Mandela from his South African jail. The lack of coverage of the Shcharansky incident is indicative of what seems to me to be a general policy of not devoting much space to the discussion of human rights issues in the Soviet Union. University events such as the ones that the Democratic and Republican Clubs co-sponsored to alert students to Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan, and the Hillel...
...offering will enrich Chairman William Gates, 30, the boy wonder who dropped his undergraduate studies at Harvard in 1975 to help start Microsoft, which produces best-selling business software for IBM and Apple personal computers as well as the popular computer game Flight Simulator. If the stock goes for $19, his 45% holding in Microsoft will be worth $211 million...
...high are we now?" asked an ice mason at the end of his shift one recent afternoon. "Right around 56 ft.," replied his boss. The laborer chuckled and shook his head at the preposterous wonder of the thing. But even great architecture seldom endures forever, and the ice palace will last barely a fortnight: demolition is scheduled for next Thursday...
...Symphony, the "Antartica," does both. It began as music for the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, and a few years later was transformed into a five-movement work. However suspect its origins as a film score, the "Antartica" is a rumbling, frightening opus, summoning up the terror and wonder that the explorer experienced on his fatal adventure. Haitink, who has a strong affinity for British music, admirably realizes the score's sense of impending, dispassionate, impersonal doom...