Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danced at the studios of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Just before graduating, she joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company, but left in 1965 to form her own ensemble, a trio of women. Their first performances were in the basement gymnasium of a church. "We were a very aggressive bunch of broads doing God's work," she recalls. "Bit by bit we felt it was O.K. for audiences to enjoy us." In 1970 a man was added to the troupe, which was gaining a reputation in the avant-garde of dance. Impatient with foundation questionnaires, Tharp's replies...
...most daring drama, encompassing every trend from artificial insemination to interracial romance. The Horton family's days pass with reckless brio. "We are a bunch of horny devils," admits the star, Susan Seaforth Hayes...
...purchasing agent for a Dublin electronics company. Paddy Moloney is an administrator. Derek Bell has been an orchestral harp player for ten years. Peadar Mercier is a construction foreman and the father of ten children. Michael Tubridy is a consulting engineer. They are, in short, about as average a bunch as any country can produce and not the usual candidates for pop stardom. But when they sit down together to play, they are something else again: the Chieftains, Ireland's leading folk band...
President Bok denies that he doesn't know any faculty members. "I know a bunch of 'em," he says. "There's that guy in economics. Oh, now this is embarrassing, because his name was on the tip of my tongue just a minute ago. You know who I mean--the gangly guy with three names who's always on TV with William F. Buckley...
...recent successes of the Soviets are a far cry from Moscow's experiences in Africa during the early 1960s. "In those years, the Russians were a bunch of boobs," recalls TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who also reported from Africa in 1959-62. "The sight of Soviets in ill-fitting suits, sweating profusely, turned off Africans who were used to seeing the immaculately tailored British and French. The Soviets also committed horrible gaffes. They sent snowplows to tropical Guinea (they have since been converted to bulldozers) and modern toilets to its capital, even though Conakry had no sewage...