Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON-Saying more Massachusetts residents should participate in athletics, state officials announced creation yesterday of the Bay State Games, designed to get thousands of people involved in amatear sports starting next year...
...Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne Bay...
...Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write his Second Piano Concerto, said he could not finish it in time and would regretfully return the money. The Pops-by-the-Bay concerts also had to be canceled when the Florida Philharmonic went on strike...
...harshness and the beauty came from New England and Massachusetts, where Cheever was born, in Quincy, of sturdy Yankee stock. An ancestor, Ezekiel, had come to the Bay Colony in 1637 and founded the Boston Latin School. Young Cheever maintained family traditions by attending Thayer Academy, but then managed at age 17 to get himself kicked out for smoking and laziness. Within a year, his short story Expelled appeared in the New Republic. He spent some time in Boston with his older brother Fred, then took a cheap room in Manhattan and pounded out short stories to pay the rent...
...they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center at San Carlos Bay. Said an army doctor at Fitzroy: "I've seen some pretty awful injuries, but nothing as horrifying as this. All we can do is put on special burn dressings and get them back as soon as possible to a warm, sterile unit...