Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Semi-Formal...
...best advantage. The medieval beams set in the ceiling of the large room to the right of the courtyard inspired art historian Millard Meiss, during his brief term as director of the Fogg, to arrange the entire space in a medieval mode, mounting Romanesque capitals on low semi-detached pedestals projecting from the wall. The Fogg's fourteenth century Italian paintings were arranged in the areas between columns and framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg replaced the small medieval works with larger seventeenth century canvases--a group which is better fitted to the room...
...given way to vodka martinis, love beads to lustrous pearls. We buy lettuce and grapes either because we've forgotten that we shouldn't or because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they splash across slick Madison Avenue advertisement. "Eat our yogurt. Rediscover nature...
Major hit musicals rarely attract cult followings. Everybody enjoys them. But in the semi-hit ranks, certain shows acquire ardent admirers who tend to feel that their pet musical has certain special qualities that the general audience does not fully appreciate It may be the tuneful charm or sophistication of the score or the sentiments expressed in the book, but such a play becomes a kind of collector's item for theatrical cognoscenti...
...University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a murky reputation going back years, is in the NCAA basketball semi-finals. Poor high school kids are offered cars, money and who knows what to attend Got-To-Win-The-Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship...