Word: zipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Charles ("Zip") Finn, 104, oldest Roman Catholic priest in the U.S. and first chaplain of the Catholic Club at Harvard University; in Boston...
...mannered and stylized American comedies, musicals and romances of the '30s and '40s, many of which are now considered classics. These days he finds it notably lacking. Of the current crop, Victor/ Victoria perhaps aspires to some of it, though the musical numbers unfortunately miss the oldtime zip and fizz...
...much of one, in fact, that the icemen probably should be on trial somewhere for the indiscretions they have committed in recent weeks. Four goals in the third period to beat Northeastern. Shutting the lights out on Princeton, 10-zip. Raping (and pillaging, I guess) Cornell, 7-0. Slapping up Dartmouth, shattering Boston College...
...photographed notes for easier concealment. Mark Phillips, 33, a London-based correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., smuggled out a videotape containing reports from CBC, CBS, NBC and BBC in the third interior compartment of a zipper bag. At one point, he said, an East German guard was "one zip away" from the tape when Phillips distracted...
ANYONE CLAMORING for more "traditional Shakespeare after all the radical artsy-fartsiness in these part should zip over to the American Shakespeare Theatre's touring Othello--and be damned. For this glum and unimaginatively "straight" production, with the aid of a flamboyant English directorial hand, skews and disfigures the original play far more effectively than the most startling new metaphor or outrageous directorial noodling. Tom Stoppard could not have done it better...