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...German capitulation: horse skeletons with uneaten bits of meat clinging to them; an enormous frozen cesspool; and, creeping into a cellar, the figure of a German soldier, his face a "mixture of suffering and idiot-like incomprehension." "The man," recalled Werth, "was perhaps already dying. In that basement into which he slunk there were still 200 Germans -- dying of hunger and frostbite. 'We haven't had time to deal with them yet,' one of the Russians said. 'They'll be taken away tomorrow, I suppose...
Union has adopted Army's hit em' hard, beat em' up approach. Unfortunately for Union, the team will also adopt Army's position in the conference--the basement...
Yale finished second in the Ivy League last year with a 9-5 record, but they graduated their top two guards. Only Ed Petersen (14.6 ppg) remains to run the show. This year, it's back to the basement...
...market hummed along at moderate speed until early 1989, when Donna Karan rewrote the rules by tapping into a powerful consumer demand that others had somehow failed to satisfy. DKNY offered stylish, sporty clothes at decent (though hardly bargain-basement) prices. It is now running neck and neck with Ellen Tracy, though DKNY is sold in 450 stores in the U.S., compared with 1,000 for Tracy. And DKNY has probably cut into the market share of Anne Klein II, whose sales have slipped from $130 million in 1989 to an estimated $110 million this year...
...problematic for other reasons. The audience has just been successfully convinced that the basement of Cabot was an inner-city bus stop--the set for Fool for Love merely rearranges the cinder blocks into a sink and adds a bed and a table to represent May's motel room. In addition, the "special effects" fall flat. The audience must suppress giggles each time a character leaves the room and mashes his feet in the gravel off-stage...