Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album. Both songs work from the success of "Just the Way You Are," but neither is as sincere. "Honesty" is innocent enough, a sweet, simple melody which allows Joel to experiment with a soft vocal. But the song smacks of Elton John's "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word," and falls flat into a canned, pop sound...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--More and more, it seems, the word to describe the '78 Crimson football season is bizarre. And bizarre it was here at Franklin Field Saturday, as the Harvard football team held off a fierce second-half Penn charge right up to the final gun to win a 17-13 heartstopper...
...used to be said that in its early decades, TIME was staffed by poets or, at any rate, by writers who cared more about words than about news. Today we still venerate the word, and we still harbor some poets in our midst, but for a long time now they have been complemented by trained newsmen. One of the first of that breed to join the magazine was Eben Roy Alexander, who came to TIME in 1939 as a veteran reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As managing editor from 1949 to 1960, he in a sense led TIME...
...Mather Drama Society production of Looking Glass, a new musical based on Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy as adapted by Rick Lake '80, is just such a frustrating disappointment. There was so much word of mouth enthusiasm spread about this show--the music alone was said to be worth the price of admission--that Saturday's audience was expecting one of the best student-written productions ever put on here. But you can't always get what you want, and unfortunately Looking Glass has serious flaws which keep it from living up to its hype...
Another problem is that some of the clever word plays in the book become thudding puns in Looking Glass because they are taken out of their original context. The funniest parts of the show are those in which the adaptor's hand is least conspicuous, as in the Tweedledum-Tweedledee episode...