Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students speculated that the HarvardLampoon was responsible for the pseudo-syllabusand the popcorn sales, and also for the burst ofmusic--several measures of Stevie Wonder's "JungleFever"--that interrupted the lecture, blasting outnear the seat of a surprised looking spectator...
...Joyce Maynard burst onto the literary scene, writing an autobiographical cover story for the New York Times Magazine titled "An 18- Year-Old Looks Back on Life." She parlayed her reputation as the most famous teenager on the Eastern Seaboard into a grownup career as a writer, producing capable and occasionally compelling chronicles of all things domestic. She has produced one novel and countless articles, and has been labeled -- not unfairly -- a women's writer. Now she has attempted a crime novel loosely based on a tabloid murder. The result is a whydunit...
...that problem is solved. The Crimson is no longer a hopeless 0-11. Harvard has finally burst through into the win column...
...turn toward a prudent frame of mind may have begun with the stock market crash of 1987, which served as an early-warning system for the harsher realities that followed. Tycoons were brought low, and speculative bubbles were burst in everything from real estate to artworks. A junkyard of bad debt and bankruptcies stretched to the horizon. The gulf war heightened the crisis atmosphere and further trivialized the pursuit of the latest fashions in consumer products. There was a faint echo of the '40s: "Don't you know there's a war on, buddy?" While some questioned the battle...
...Burst of Fresh Starts...