Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pressbox. But when Ted Donato ripped a slapshot past Rensselaer goaltender Sean Kennedy with five seconds left to play Saturday night, forcing overtime, the rulebook went out the window once again. The media types in Bright's west-end overhang screamed just as loudly as the rowdies in section...
Which isn't to say that the issue hasn't generated a list of candidates. After all, the New York Times felt PC-ness was important enough to allot a full page in its Sunday "Week in Review" section to "A Campus Forum on Multiculturalism." The goal of the page was to consider "the tyranny of the politically correct...
...tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage of modern art, Georges Braque's painting is shown...
...with its faults of brevity and trendiness, The Random House Encyclopedia still represents a unique attempt to gather and illuminate knowledge in a manageable space. Any serious research demands a steady leaping from one section to another -- the bibliography is in the back, far from the original entry. But this singular book can settle virtually any argument about science, art, sport, politics or culture. Few high school or even college papers would fail to benefit from an examination of its pages. Bright adolescents, not to say curious adults, will find all they need here from theories about the first nanoseconds...
...front page of Thursday's Metro/Region section in the Globe, Barnicle delivered a scathing commentary on Dershowitz's media mystique. "The words go in the paper and help satisfy the emotional needs of Al, who has a first-rate ego and a mind racing to catch up," Barnicle writes...