Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little noticed revue. A Brooklyn department store, unable to take out the usual full-page ads for its back-to-school sales, took to the skies instead, hiring five computer-assisted planes to cough out messages in white smoke. On Broadway, the Sept. 11 opening of Arthur Kopit's new play, Wings, was postponed until after the still uncertain reopening of New York's real-life version of The Front Page...
...their elders. This year, the eighth in which Rochester has conducted the program, some 600 parents of 1,100 freshmen paid a small fee ($33) to learn about university life. Many are sending off their first child; some never went to college themselves. For all of them, says Administrator Arthur Goldberg, a 15-year veteran, "the orientation is partly an act of kindness. Parents have enormous levels of anxiety...
Surely, replied the illustrious British astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, nature would forbid such a reductio ad absurdum as a star so compressed that sit does not shine. But two other astronomers, Mount Wilson Observatory's Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade, were more intellectually adventurous...
...Dance and Dance Instruction, at the Union. Arthur Murray won't be there, and you shouldn't be there either...
Everyone has his own idea of how man became man, and of what life was like among the creatures, no longer apes but not yet human, who inhabited the earth more than a million years ago. In 2001, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke presented ape men who evolved, in part, by murdering those of their neighbors who had not yet learned to use clubs. Cartoonists gave us Fred Flintstone and his pet dinosaurs. The epic movie One Million B.C. offered a grunting Raquel Welch dodging various prehistoric beasts and cave men with something more than evolution on their minds...