Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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UNTIL last week, Derek Bok and I had little in common. He set University policy. I whined about it. He had a neat spread all to himself in Massachusetts Hall. I shared a room in Leverett House with five guys renowned for their "trash art." He was quoted widely in the New York Times. I was just lucky to get my New York Times...
...program is the brainchild of Smith, a Ph.D. in Russian Studies, who initiated a set of executive exchanges this year as well. This spring Hartje, who was the Jets' seventh-round pick in 1986, met with Sokol-Kiev Coach Anatoly Bogdanov in Winnipeg...
...toll that tourists have already taken seems a compelling reason for not inviting 23 million more. Which explains why so many defenders of Venice are dead set against a plan for the city to host Expo 2000, a four-month-long world's fair celebrating the turn of the millennium...
...leaded-glass lamps displayed in "Masterworks" radiate a ragtime glow -- magnolias, maple leaves, dragonflies and cobwebs are set atop finely wrought bronze bases. Viewed together, however, they overwhelm a modern eye, a sort of kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp...
With Colombia's presidential elections scheduled for May 27, the drug cartels have set out on a wild assassination binge. The idea is to influence the outcome, and according to the secret police, the funding comes mainly from drug magnate Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Despite sweeping police operations, the terrorist toll from May 10 to May 17 alone was 503 people murdered and 18 kidnaped, bringing the year's total to more than 5,000 killings and 342 abductions...