Word: classical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Harvard's triple-overtime victory in Hanover. N.H., came after the team's season had reached its nadir. Coach Frank McLaughlin's crew had self-lestructed in the Colonial Classic, collapsing in the consolation round to UMass, a team that had lost 29 games...
...banker. In fact, he is. In the two years before taking up his Treasury Department post, Solomon spent full time chipping away at blocks of white oak or molding bronze in his suburban Washington studio. His style in sculpture is modern semiabstract, but in money politics his mode is classic conservative...
...slang by an inarticulate character. The narrator here is a gabby, boorish husband who never really grasps that he is describing a near fatal crisis in his 50-year marriage. As he prattles lightly about painful events, the gap between his words and deeds becomes the basis for a classic black comedy...
...through 40 years of marriage. Four children are born and bred amidst a welter of domesticities. Passions are expended in the composition of herbaceous borders, the concoction of raspberry tarts and the preparation of potions of cocoa laced with rum and chocolate shavings. Yet Ariadne moves briskly through this classic obstacle course. And why not? She was named for the Greek princess who knew her way around a maze, and those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love, a horrific illegal abortion, even an infanticide of mythic proportion. Other beginnings-an unfulfilled...
...strode and ran. Their movements, caught in chiaroscuro, give the studies an eerie, dreamlike quality that has never quite been duplicated. Other series of nude men, women and children are done without a hint of prurience and provide a brilliant study of anatomy. The price tag on this rediscovered classic is prohibitive, but no library can afford to skip works that prove photography was a high art long before the electronic-shutter and autofocus robots that now pass for cameras...