Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Festival of Animation (A Mellow Madness Production) has been touring the country since 1977. Jim Terry, who selected the films for this year's Festival, has been working for Mellow Madness since 1981. Terry (who says he prefers that people call him Jimbo) says he tries to make every showing of the Festival something special, an event that people will enjoy and remember. To that end, Terry comes to each showing of the Festival, gives a brief introduction to the films, and wanders around the lobby during intermission to discuss the animations with moviegoers and to get their opinions...
...Neil Phillips gets a call informing him that he has been drafted by an NFL team, he may have to read about it in the newspaper the next...
...When people call," Phillips said, "I just have to bang on the phone a few times. I've got the technique down now. The person on the other end can hear me, so it should be okay...
...Tony Hinz gets a call Sunday or Monday, then staying home and not participating in "The Survival Game"--a war-like game in which the participants dress in camouflage and shoot pellets at one another--with his friends in the forest will be worth...
After a frustrating hour-and-a-half of trying to guess what symbols the proctor was attempting to describe to me, I finally asked him to call the registrar's office. Two members of the office's staff came. One of them asked, with some hostility, what more I could have expected their office to do for me. The professor of the course was summoned and arrived half an hour later. He identified two or three symbols on the exam for the proctor and then left. Unfortunately the exam contained many more elementary notations which he presumably expected the proctor...