Word: colors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day interest began to build in the final as a soccer game, and not simply as the termination of a huge fiesta. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, naturally, and scalpers were selling seats for $300 or more. Movie theaters where closed-circuit color broadcasts would be offered were mobbed. What the world could expect to see-and had seen far too little of in this World Cup-was the collision of two rough, occasionally brilliant young teams that had played hesitant soccer in the early rounds but at the end had committed themselves to attack...
Long before the games began, Videla seized upon the World Cup as a means of taking the Argentines' minds off their many troubles. And never mind the $700 million officially (and conservatively) estimated cost of building or renovating six stadiums and several airports, and of constructing the color television broadcasting system necessary to pipe the World Cup to the world...
Lecture: Dance Center Lecture Series--"Color Slides of 40 Years at Jacob's Pillow." John Lindquist, dance photographer. 2 p.m., Agassiz Living Room. Free...
While many Yankee fans are preparing to concede the division title to Boston before the leaves change color. Baltimore manager Earl Weaver looks at the Sox 50-21 record and probably thinks of 1974, when Boston had a 7 1/2-game lead on August 23, only to lose the title to the Birds in the last two weeks. Don't worry about a pennant race, boy and girls...
...Jake Barnes couldn't fill that request, but Mick Jagger does. This album is concerned with sex, love, dreams and survival. The greatest works of art are nearly always probing these themes, and Jagger's lyrics are honest because in their irony and pity they reflect the ambiguities that color these themes in reality. The Stones' music once again is as relentless and streamlined a vehicle for Jagger's visions as it was in 1972. Now the problem is how much longer the show can go on without one of its main starts...