Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Acapulco Princess Hotel, Christina Acosta of Miami Beach was celebrating her 24th birthday when she saw the wall of her room "just crack straight down from the ceiling to the floor. The noise was terrible. It was the longest minute and a half of my life. I thought, 'This is it; I made it to 24 and now it's all over.' " When the rocking stopped, the damage was surprisingly small, even though Acapulco was only 150 miles from the epicenter. The radar at the city's airport was knocked out, stranding travelers for a time, and there...
...will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary of India's National Congress, forerunner of India's ruling Congress (I) Party. The estimated total cost: $15 million, $5 million from the Indian government, the remainder from U.S. institutions...
While generally weak, it is an encouraging album. Young's most brilliant, visceral work has always followed such mediocre transitional albums: "Everybody knows This is Nowhere" (1969) and classic "After the Goldrush" (1970) followed the disappointing album, "Neil Young"; the dark, powerful "On the Beach" (1974) and "Tonight's the Night" (1975) followed the drunk and disorderly "Time Fades Away" (1973). Moreover, Young's finest work has always had a country tinge: witness "Harvest" (1972) and "Comes a Time...
Maybe it's just a little disheartening to watch the boy who once fantasized about "Pictures of Lily" grow into a man who writes graphically about screwing female horses on the beach...
...cause I got to do what my job says. I got to go after them harder than I've ever gone after them before; and bring them out of it. It is an atmosphere disease. It really is. They're drug-addicted losers...Football is not volleyball on the beach at Jones Beach in the summertime. There's a lot more to it than that. But it was miracle. It was a miracle on 218th St. It was going to be there...Then in the second half, anything they tried; they put their 11th string in, and still they were...