Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early morning blizzard worries Commencement officials, but sunshine breaks through and the temperature climbs into the low 40s for the ceremony. Actualy, ceremonies, since seniors A-M are graduated on the University Hall side of the Yard canyon. Honorary degrees are awarded to Albert "Dapper" O'Neill, Ed McMahon, Fred Jones (founder of S&H Green Stamps), Jack Webb ("crimefighter and character actor, he has contributed to the growth of UHF television"), and Timothy Leary ("ahead of his time, he has served the Supreme Court well this winter...
...winds from the sky whipped the snowdrifts up high; a blizzard was raging at peak...
...hurt that the U.S. papers picked up the worst quotes in the papers here" and, for a more moderate view, directed the curious to a Sunday Times column by TV Critic Russell Davies. That was largely an act of existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then proceeded to nail Carson's guests, his audience, his tailoring and "a marmoset [that] peed endearingly on Johnny's head and an aardvark [that] shat in a sandbox...
...icemen are still recovering from Saturday night's trip home from Orono. The team bus left the arena at 11 p.m. and cruised at a snow-encumbered but steady pace until grinding to a halt with a broken clutch at a toll booth near the New Hampshire border. The blizzard delayed the arrival of another bus and attempts to revive the vehicle were unsuccessful, so everyone sat there for four hours and watched the snow fall. Finally, at 6 a.m., a new bus showed up and the squad...
...this spare, direct production of The Crucible so effective. The South House dramatists seem to have everything on their side: the artistry of Miller's script, which mingles not-too-oblique political comment (the play was written during the McCarthy era) with personal and emotional drama; the New England blizzard outdoors, which highlights the "crucible" heat of passions boiling inside these outwardly contained, black-coated Puritan characters; the deeper cold emanating these days from Washington, making Miller's political preoccupations seem anything but remote; even the oak-panelled Cabot Living Room. They could hardly miss...