Word: cue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes moviegoers feel. They hitched a ride with him in Risky Business and made him a star at 21. They sat in the cockpit of his F-14 as he swaggered through the sky in Top Gun. They perched in a pool hall and watched him wield a cue like a master swordsman in The Color of Money. They flew to the Caribbean to join him in a frothy Cocktail. They traveled with him on a cross- country journey to fraternal reconciliation in Rain Man. And with each adventure, audiences adjusted their estimation of the young man -- from Most Likely...
...stay with the black Bears, it almost snagged a victory in the final minutes of the game. Trailing, 55-40, with only 4:20 left in the game, Harvard took a timeout, went back out and outscored Maine, 7-2, in the next two minutes. Taking her cue, Maura Healey then hit her first three-point shot, bringing the Crimson to within seven...
Ronald Reagan? Ed Koch? Dan Quayle? Nope. That was Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ("a stellar professor"--the CUE Guide), the Thomson professor of government, talking at a forum organized by the Undergraduate Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Hiring last Thursday night...
...then there was Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom ("friendly attitude"--the CUE Guide). At the same forum, he placed a five dollar bill on the table, betting Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison that Black professors at other Ivy League universities are "unqualified" as academics...
...Arabs is dangerous and absurd. And after decades of serving as pawns for larger powers, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have taken control of the Arab struggle against Israel, forcing the rest of the Arab world to play catch-up. Jordan's King Hussein took his cue last year by revoking his claim to the West Bank. Last December P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made capital out of the uprising by renouncing terrorism and recognizing Israel's right to exist...