Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke the next...
...bill passes the committee hearing, Beacon Hill watchers say it should pass in the House, but may be defeated in the Senate where legislators killed the proposal last year...
...unexpected geologic inversion produced a bizarre result: Crocodile Dundee (Beacon Hill). Beyond this, Dewitt couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. Paul Hogan always seemed pretty funny on the Foster's commercials, and Dewitt always found a certain charm in the Land Down Under--so why is Crocodile Dundee such a bad movie? The answer can be stated in very simple terms: because it's stupid...
...some sense of what is acceptable, what is right. "Although I can't say Reagan made kids behave the way they did at Howard Beach," says Roger Wilkins, senior research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, "whites get the message that the leader of this country, the moral beacon, is saying it's all right to be racist." That judgment was considerably exaggerated, but it nonetheless remains true that any sign of indifference means that the beast is free to prowl...
Since the University lost its status as a state university and Beacon Hill lost its grip on the Board of Overseers in the late 19th century, the alumni-elected governing body effectively has ceded ultimate control of University affairs to the seven-man governing Corporation, only one of whom, the Harvard president, answers to the community...