Word: baton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BRITTEN: PAUL BUNYAN (Virgin). Sir Benjamin's tuneful first opera was conceived in 1939 as a Broadway show with a libretto by W.H. Auden. It never played the Great White Way, but it comes to life under Philip Brunelle's baton...
...world knows how well Joe is running," Lewis said after the race. "At the end, he had more strength." The bitterest frustration, however, came when the anchor man on the U.S. B team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing in the finals. Carl's still remarkable Olympic total: six golds and a silver. "This has been a bizarre Olympics," he summed up at week's end. "There have been...
This time there were no tears, no tortured confessions, no anguished pleas for forgiveness. As Jimmy Swaggart took the podium outside his World Ministry headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., last week, the Pentecostal preacher seemed serene. The 13-member executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God had just voted unanimously to defrock him. The televangelist responded by announcing his resignation from the church. "I wish it were possible to erase the ledger and start over again," said Swaggart. "But of course...
Unfortunately, a lot of the Civil War myths remain. We teach our children that the war was fought to end slavery because we can't teach them the truth--that hundreds of thousands of Americans were sacrificed so that Abraham Lincoln could be the president of both Boston and Baton Rouge...
...Baton Rouge. A White House communications aide tells Fuller that "somebody is trying to contact Timberwolf." Barbara Bush is using five minutes of free time after a campaign stop in Meridian, Miss., to reach her husband. Bush is still in the post-jambalaya press conference for the local media and can't get to the phone...