Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third try was successful, and the bar went up to 17-ft. even. Once again Stiles waited until the third shot to sail over and become one of the four remaining competitors...
Another mind boggler was that at the same time Stiles was clearing the bar on his winning jump in the pole vault, the two-mile relay team was tearing up the track. This same coincidence occurred the previous week at the IC4As...
Eventually Williams returned to San Francisco, where he hung around the city's small comedy clubs. While tending bar, he met a dancer named Valerie Valardi, whom he married last June. Valerie urged him to try the clubs in Los Angeles; she helped catalogue his material and shape his act. Once Williams had played Los Angeles' Comedy Store and Improvisation, he began to get TV work...
...lulling sounds of California rock or the dull throb of disco might not take to a Clash tune like Tommy Gun. There is even some civic concern about violence at the concerts, to which Strummer replies, "There's as much violence at our concerts as any bar" -or, he might have added, at your run-of-the-mill Aerosmith concert. Even with this uncertainty and resistance, the new album has sold upwards of 50,000 copies so far, indicating that there is still an audience for the kind of challenging, combustible music that has not been matched since...
Rumor has it that just as Stiles cleared the bar, John Murphy broke away from Princeton's Dan Challener in the anchor leg of the two-mile relay to secure a second-place finish for the Crimson...