Word: champaign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hardly mentions the actors in Citizen Kane, much less what the film means or represents, but he is exhaustive in his analyses of the art direction, the photography, the special effects, the sound track...
...impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity within the music community even as they signal a further deepening of social awareness...
...were for the benefit of African drought victims. Next Sunday the trend continues, albeit for a different group and in a slightly lower gear: Willie Nelson and some of his country music cousins are planning Farm Aid, a benefit concert at the University of Illinois football stadium in Champaign (pop. 58,000) to benefit debt-ridden American farmers...
...blends western and pop music, has garnered support from across the musical spectrum. Pop stars like John Cougar Mellencamp, as well as Country Veterans Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, will be joined by old-time Rockers Bob Dylan and Neil Young for the twelve- hour extravaganza. Many residents of Champaign are opening their homes to the 78,000 people scheduled to attend...
...teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry or upset, three-quarters said they drink to get drunk, and 42% admitted they have trouble putting down the bottle once they start. Almost 30% had at least one accident or injury...