Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in a fitness-conscious age, people need incentive to exercise, so the organizers of the freshman intramural program are planning to award the first Yard Trophy to Massachusetts Hall, last year's overall intramural winner...
...Showtime and narrated by Jack Nicholson, recorded the theme for The Cosby Show and vocalized for the eye-catching, ear- gracing commercials for Levi's 501 jeans. His four-octave voice has topped Down Beat magazine's readers' poll for best male singer four years running -- that's one award per octave. For the past three years, he has also taken away Grammys for Best Male Jazz Vocalist. Now, after spending two of the past three years on the road (performing as many as 116 concerts annually), Bobby McFerrin is setting his sights on something serious. San Francisco. Home. Family...
...Marie Antoinette Award for Noblesse Oblige. Dan Quayle's remark that "those people" at a food bank in Indiana were "glad" that "I took time out of my schedule to go down and talk" with them...
...Youth Must Be Served Award. To Quayle, for interjecting, "I can hear you O.K.," after Bentsen had complained to Jon Margolis that he could not hear a question...
Legislative Legerdemain Award. To Bentsen, for accusing Quayle of voting to cut Social Security benefits eight times. Quayle voted only to delay cost of living adjustments, just as Bentsen...