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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacDonald is making a run at Fusco's all-time goal-scoring mark of 240 points. After recording four assists last night, MacDonald has 23 points this year, and 188 for his career...
Although Young was Harvard's head pilot last night, he had a couple of teammates who crowded the cockpit. Freshman goalie Chuckie Hughes (29 saves) recorded the first shutout of his collegiate career, while Mike Vukonich scored two goals. Peter Ciavaglia collected four points (one goal, three assists), and Captain Lane MacDonald had four assists...
Geffen wasted no time moving back into show business. In 1981 he started Geffen Records under an arrangement in which Warner Communications financed the fledgling company and distributed its products. As Geffen launched his second career, his colleagues noticed a difference. Says Mo Ostin, chairman of Warner Bros. Records: "David is still incredibly tough and ambitious, but he softened considerably after the cancer scare. He's far more concerned about people than in his previous incarnation." Before long, Geffen signed up the likes of Elton John, Peter Gabriel and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He branched into theatrical ventures...
...coincidence, then, that Chandler's most famous weapon was the simile, the perfect device for describing a world in which everything is like something else, and nothing is itself. And the unrelenting sun of California only intensified the shadiness. By the end of his career, in fact, Chandler was pulling off a series of bitter twists and brilliant turns on the paradoxes of illusion: the prim secretary from Manhattan is, in truth, from Manhattan, Kans., and turns out to be a tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler...
Barbie endures in part because she evolves, as each little girl grows and as each generation changes. She has survived a sexual revolution, an army of imitators and a string of risky career moves and hairstyle changes. There was Barbie the stewardess in 1961, then Barbie the nurse (no mean feat, since 1964 was the first year she could bend her knees) and Barbie the astronaut. She apparently was completing medical school at the time, since this year she emerged as Dr. Barbie. "The toys that become classics are those that help children define themselves as they grow," says Mattel...