Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is a cold, gray day in Philadelphia, and the furnace in the drafty old Commodore Barry Club can push the temperature only to about 50 degrees F, but the musicians just button their overcoats tighter, blow on their hands and take out their instruments. After all, it isn't...
At the request of Levi, Kariko will stay at Harvard after classes end in June to help host the arrival of the American Arachnological Society. More than 70 spider and scorpion specialists, including scientists from Europe, will converge on Cambridge, for this international spider convention.
How do you give spark to a song with a stale line like "Hold me tight"? How can you best rebel against the "tyrannies of pop convention"? How do you tread the fine line between form and formula?
Contending forces in the Republican Party suspended or muted their hostilities, each to enjoy its own share of the Reagan glory. Potential candidates tried to rub some of his magic onto their futures, but people were not really thinking of tomorrow. It was all a glorious today of heady triumph...
The only "issue" of the convention was Ronald Reagan's Teflon invulnerability; the principal activity was a delight in sharing his life. This was accomplished not so much by actual appearances at the convention (he came late and moved about little) but by way of the films he had made...