Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everybody knows that the National League had a great class of pitchers last year. There was Orel Hershiser's 19-3 record; John Tudor's 1.93 ERA; and Rick Reuschel's valiant performance for the hapless Pirates. But no one has thrown a nohitter in the Senior Circuit since September, 1983. Ten points if you can name the artist of that masterpiece...
...chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description and bears comparison to one of Lloyd's immortally orchestrated and madly logical disaster sequences...
...says, "but in the '60s a tremendous amount of American talent pumped gas." You could hear heavy traces and fond tributes to the Everlys in the Beatles, in Simon and Garfunkel, in the Eagles, but respect keeps no one on the rock charts. The Everlys were working the oldies circuit in 1973 when Phil walked offstage, smashed his guitar and didn't go back. Don soloed the next night and told the audience, "The Everly Brothers died ten years...
...June 1, after a month of closed-circuit viewing on Capitol Hill, the Senate will permit four rip-roaring weeks of legislative action to be televised on c-span, the cable network that already brings the House to some 23 million homes. Then on July 29, the chamber will vote on whether cameras, lights and mikes should become permanent fixtures of "the world's greatest deliberative body...
...N.A.A.C.P. and the American Civil Liberties Union have also filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court, arguing that the parks ordinance is illegal. In Dearborn, however, these pressures have only hardened local resistance. Dearborn's new mayor, Michael Guido, who initially opposed the ordinance, now says the city will fight opponents in court...