Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entrance marked IRCAM. It leads down, four levels below, to the world's newest, most sophisticated center for musical experiment and composition, officially titled Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique. IRCAM is a hushed place that fairly radiates energy and cerebration. Here the ordinateur, as the French call a computer, reigns. In one lab, a group is seeking its aid in constructing a new, futuristic flute. In another, a composer is using it to produce a sound heard so far only in his own head...
...whatever you call it, players were shuttled in halfway through the opening period and remained in until halfway through the final period. The inherent disadvantage of bringing players cold off the bench into the height of a soccer game was evident...
...Green Machine limited Holland--if you can call it limiting--to 112 yards on the day, well below his 157-yards-per-game average. Meanwhile, Dufresne racked up a career-high 169 yards including the first half's only score, a 4-yd. burst over left tackle to cap a 52-yd., 13-play drive just before the first half ended...
...They called it "the Pig Club" back in 1791 when it was founded, and some call it that today for different reasons. You see, the Porcellian Club--the most prestigious and mysterious of Harvard's nine final clubs--took its original name from two of its first members who enjoyed "that delicacy in roasted form," according to Cleveland Amory. The vernacular--and even the club--has changed since 1791, and Porcellian is now known to its enamored members as "the Porc...
...tell people they should vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed King because it is easier for the president to work with a Democratic team. The boy from Atlanta, (where, as one staunch New Englander pointed out, all they have is the Braves) might have been more persuasive in his call for party unity if he had realized that the Red Sox play in the American League and not the National League, as he said before a bewildered crowd of 25,000 in Lynn...