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Word: cliffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This made sense to Rush, and so did Sykes' idea of how to be an entrepreneur: "Leave skid marks at the edge of the cliff." Rush was about to leave some. The year before, 1980, he had failed to fill a 500-seat rock club in Boston for a Christmas show, at $7 a ticket. Now he booked the city's classiest concert house, the 2,600-seat Symphony Hall, for a year-end performance at $15. It was a $20,000 gamble, and it paid off in a sellout. A year later, when he repeated the concert, Bostonians talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...know is I think Cliff Jolly is a shit. He, or someone destroyed a lot of things out of sheer jealousy. I mean, someone poured acid on the slides of lemur chromosome studies that BJ had done," says Spuhler...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Drugs And Chocolate | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

Despite what the flyer called "certain unintentional similarities between From Here to Eternity and Days of our Lives, Dallas, Dynasty and Love Story," the first episode of the Leverett House Soap Opera, directed by Adam Schwartz and Cliff Goodstein, was in fact amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Those critical reports, including Involvement in Learning from the U.S. government's Office of Research and Development of Education (ORDE) and the Carnegie Foundation's College, have "put assessment front and center" on the higher-education agenda, according to Cliff Adelman, senior associate in ORDE...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Assessing the Value of a Harvard Education | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could be Oliver North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fawn Hall: Oliver North's Angel | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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