Word: dane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine-year-old girl, left alone at home, panics when her Great Dane starts giving birth to pups. A two-year-old boy is bleeding from a cut in the knee, and the four-year-old girl who is looking after him desperately needs help. These are typical of perhaps 10 million "latchkey" children whose parents are away and do not have babysitters. But these three are lucky because they live in a suburban area northwest of Chicago where a 24-hour hot-line service-apparently the nation's first-has been set up to give them comfort...
...shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that all good design must be Danish. There are two Italians (Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Marco Zanuso) and a Finn (Tapio Wirkkala), reflecting the international, eclectic diversity of the decorative arts in our time...
...women's "A" race Kirkland House erased a three-year Eliot winning streak by keeping pace with its neighbor for most of the course and then pulling away in the last 100 meters to take the Dane-Felb Cup by four seconds...
...humdrum direction, only the moments of lowdown violence stand out. Hamlet stabs Polonius (George Hall) as he stands behind the arras not once but repeatedly in an orgiastic frenzy. In the dueling finale with Laertes, Venora kicks him in the rear, scarcely the mark of the "noble Dane." In the bedroom scene, this Hamlet pummels Queen Gertrude (Kathleen Widdoes) so bruisingly that when the poignant line "How is it with you, lady?" is uttered, the audience breaks into semi-suppressed laughter, having witnessed the beating the lady has taken...
Water Polo vs. Notre Dane, 8:30 p.m. Blodgett pool...