Word: wraps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other scenario would delay the crowning of the new league champion another week, until when both Harvard and Dartmouth host Cornell to wrap up the season. Harvard Women's Basketball 14-6 Overall...
With the pair of weekend wins, the Crimson solidified its hold on first place in the ECAC. If Harvard wins five out of its remaining seven league games, it will wrap up the ECAC regular season title for the first time since...
...filming dragged on, the fabled Russian winter set in. To protect against temperatures that plunged at times to 18 below zero, the crew had to wrap equipment in blankets; once indoors, lights frequently shattered because of the temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two 54-seat buses, where they changed costumes by retreating behind cloths strung up like curtains. Then last February, a month before he was scheduled to leave to direct a production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Schell was laid low by a fever for nearly four weeks. Torn between his Berlin commitment...
...Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap. Sam and a man in the next office share a desk that each keeps yanking through his own side of the dividing wall. Every romantic impulse is stifled by the system's suffocating incompetence. In one poignant scene, Sam descends in an open elevator and ecstatically spots Jill...
Zeig thought that the conference had helped produce some "baby steps" toward unifying the world of therapy. "Ten years ago," he said, "these people wouldn't even have sat down together." The obstacles to consensus may have been best illustrated at one contentious panel when the moderator tried to wrap things up by saying that at least everyone agreed on the need for honesty in therapy. Szasz, ever the ankle biter at conventions, interrupted to declare that many patients want dishonesty, and the therapeutic business ought to provide...