Word: boston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concluded that homosexuals should be given admittance into the military should they meet the other requirements. The Pentagon's response? It "called the study 'unfortunate' and wrote that 'it has it has expended considerable government resources and has not assisted us one whit in our personnel security program." (Boston Globe, 10/29.) Though all current evidence points to the contrary, the military refuses to change its policy denying the worth and attacking the abilities of such a significant portion of our student body...
After opening its season with a solid 20-13 win over Boston University in a tri-meet last Tuesday, the Crimson is looking forward to the rest of the season with an optimistic...
Earl Beale, a salesman at a Boston used-car lot, is a former college basketball player who did time in Leavenworth for his role in a point-shaving scandal. The fact that he is an ex-con has somehow been erased from official records. For this dispensation, Earl knows that he owes someone a favor, and when the call comes, it looks simple. All he has to do is steal a car in Rhode Island...
...course, this would have been exactly the feeling of a cultivated Japanese in 1885, watching his cultural patrimony being politely stripped by American collectors, led by Ernest Fenollosa and the "Boston bonzes." The emerging lesson of the late '80s, which is unlikely to change in the '90s, is that America no longer controls the art market to any significant degree. Mostly, it sells. Its buying power is fading fast...
...success as a collaborator has brought him a comfortable life in an affluent suburb of Boston that enables him, as he says, "to buy raspberries instead of apples." He is currently compiling an anthology of American humor and mulling future celebrity subjects. He muses about Mikhail Gorbachev ("but somehow I think he's busy right now"), and, as a music lover who has recently resumed piano lessons, he thinks about Paul McCartney or Barbra Streisand. "Or Elvis, if he can find him," wisecracks Ben, 10, one of the Novaks' two sons. As for a return to the solo byline...