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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bright stars illuminate the outlines of their constellations. Similarly, Gelsey Kirkland's brilliance has drawn attention to a whole new generation of American-born dancers. In their early 20s, they are poised at the turning point between skill and mastery. Though the rigors of training typically lend a certain sameness to ballet performers' lives, the new U.S. dancers show a surprising diversity. Six of the most promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Others at the Turning Point | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...sheep ate mostly hot apples for their meals (when they weren't eating grass and dancing about the meadow), and sometimes they took the apples and polished them up real bright and gave them to the goats. The fox decided that the sheep would do just as well if they ate cold apples, and it would be much cheaper not to have to cook the apples every day. But the sheep baaaaed a little, so he gave every fourth sheep a hot apple and told them to share the delicacies with their fellow sheep who had cold apples...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...passionately in love with solitude now," she said. "Even for me there are moments of loneliness--that's the dark side. The bright side is being able to do one's work in peace," she added...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Novelist Speaks About Creativity At Open Forum | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

Since late 1975, Burns says Pat's has been doing the towing for Harvard by virtue of its low bid for the yearly contracts. Parking official seem pleased with the performance of the men in the bright red trucks, but students with cars often have a very different opinion of the towing establishment...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: You Can't Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd, But... | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Early on, the race looked like an unexpectedly easy victory for a Crimson crew that came in uncertain that they would win. In a light breeze and bright sunlight, Harvard came the start even, then gradually pulled away from MIT. By 500 meters the Crimson had two seats on MIT and six on a Dartmouth squad that had been desperately practicing this week on the only 500 unfrozen meters of the Connecticut River near Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Crews It a Clean Sweep | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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