Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather colossal misunderstanding pervades this campus. Due to a chain of events too intricate to detail here, a widely held notion contends this is exam week. But this week's true identity increasingly demands attention: It is the week of the Super Bowl, America's secular holiday, the single most commonly shared American event, the football game which invariably and understandably fails to match its build...
What a build-up it is, Super Bowls generally are planned three years in advance. Television advertising runs about $375,000 per half-minute and companies don't blink. And, each year, half of America becomes transfixed. At no other time do so many people do precisely the same thing. There is not one comparable money maker: Super Bowl XVII will generate about $100 million for the television network, football league and host city...
...stories on such subjects as Gelsey Kirkland and Bobby Fischer, leave immediately? He departed the next day, only to confront another element of the unexpected when he landed. "Arriving in Salzburg at the height of the festival without a hotel reservation," says Hillenbrand, "is like arriving at the Super Bowl without a ticket...
...NOTEBOOK The Harvard Clarkson game at Bright Hockey Center has been changed to a 1:30 p.m. starting time because of the Super Bowl. With Maine's second goal coming on a power play. Harvard's shorthanded goals now equal its man-up goals allowed. The Crimson has 12 players in double figures for point totals. ECAC Standings ECAC Standings As of January 13, 1983 East Division W L T Pct. 1. Providence 8-2-0 .800 2. UNH 6-2-0 .750 3. Northeastern 5-3-1 .611 4. Boston College 4-3-1 .563 5. Boston University...
...year-end madness in Miami is usually happy and carefully orchestrated, a prelude to the Orange Bowl parade and the big college football game it self. But the madness in Miami last week was grim and unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard, the down-and-out Overtown section, just five blocks south of the parade route, erupted into spasms of street combat after a young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been killed by police, more than 25 people...