Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty. The eye for detail paid off: the Lakers won the N.B.A. championship in 1972, and have remained one of the good, if not great, teams in pro basketball. The Kings have been less successful, but the Forum, dubbed "Cooke's Folly" by local detractors, has been a smash, making money from...
Like leftover props from a sci-fi thriller movie, strange apparitions are appearing across the U.S. In the deserts of New Mexico, huge banks of motorized mirrors track the sun and focus its rays into a cyclops-like eye of red heat. A mountain in North Carolina has been crowned with what appears to be a giant aircraft propeller. A large man-made atoll, resembling a top that Gulliver would have spun for the Lilliputians, may soon be floating off the coast of California. All are imaginative, experimental devices to help find and develop alternative energies, which would alleviate...
...eye of the storm, Thomas B. Gold, a graduate student in Sociology, was selected to participate in a student exchange program with China. On a matter a little closer to home, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life discussed the possibility of a 14-meal plan and set up a subcommittee to formulate an official University position...
Ylvisaker stresses the importance of keeping educational issues in the public eye. "Education is just too damned important" to be buried, he says, adding, "Even if the Secretary of Education lost battle after battle, we'd still have a spokesman." Bailey takes a more pragmatic view. Education, he argues, must be "dignified and elevated to the point when somebody like Derek Bok can call up the Secretary on a particular issue and say, 'For Chrissakes...
...harder he tries to be colloquial or hip, the more stilted he becomes ("What's bugging you, man?/ Cool and jivey once;/ Now, touchy and tight"). His three acts of roughly 30 minutes each are so compressed that they allow no development, leaving on the mind's eye only a flashing succession of emblems...