Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Temperatures rocketed into the low 80s, and yesterday's heavy cloud cover dissipated, making it a perfect day for a season opener. Lured by sunny skies, lowered ticket prices, and the inherent appeal of the earliest-season Ivy matchup in recent memory, fans from all over the Boston area began arriving at Soldier's Field at midday...
...that made the truck look like he could sneeze on it, hit the gas tank. The pick-up just rumbled for a second, and there was a dripping sound as gas leaked on to the cement. Then the truck joined its brother the Merc, 20 years late, M-80s--July Fourth--Dealy Plaza--Day of the Locust craziness...
...ideological dream, but no one, to my mind, has given him much competition as a candidate. There is a lot more to this man than his critics give him credit for and, barring any catastrophe, he will be the Roosevelt of the '70s and '80s...
...case, words - to bring forth a new birth of consciousness. The pain is the passion. If the work lives, the birth is successful. From the minutiae of the constricted world Dickinson knew - tending her father, cooking, the muffled gossip of Amherst, Mass., in the 1870s and '80s - she built a bridge to the transcendental mystery of existence. At her best, she succeeded. What makes Julie Harris' performance so moving is that she perceives and conveys these moments of transcendence...
...alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this collection of emotional still lifes seemed too pallid for the English stage, so Travers retired to the seaside to watch cricket. But when he was well into his 80s he decided to try again, and succeeded in broadening his vision and style without losing his comic bite, a feat that eluded even Bernard Shaw in his declining years...