Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...origination fee doubles for graduate students, "it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back," said Patricia McWade, director of student assisstance in the Graduate School of Art and Sciences (GSAS...
...wallflower during the past decade, is sponsoring bowling tournaments for its "Lucky Strikes Again" comeback campaign. Most bowlers, studies show, are smokers. Brown & Williamson underwrote Kool Jazz Festivals in 20 cities. R.J. Reynolds backs stock-car racing, rodeos, even country music festivals, but it enraged some Bostonians with its "Camel Concerts on the Common" series. GASP (Group Against Smokers' Pollution) protested and Reynolds withdrew its support...
...light shines best on Peter Allen at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, and he knows it. In 1981, before seven sellout audiences, the campy Australian crooner rode onto the Radio City stage atop a camel This time he offers an affectionate if glitzy tribute to Al Jolson. There are 37 musicians, 36 Rockettes and a 40-ft. staircase for Allen to prance upon As a dancer, Allen makes up in perspiration what he lacks in locomotion. Is he afraid of falling from those steps? Said he: "There are 36 girls to catch...
...teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
...regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...