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Word: decks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larry Brown kept the Navy Midshipmen below deck for 12 innings yesterday as he hurled the Crimson baseball team to a 2-1 victory in a marathon contest at Soldier's Field...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Brown Pitches 12 Innings for 2-1 Win | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

Poker was the steadiest and most spectated game, as the makeshift card-board table and airline deck were both well worn out by the end of the trip. Regulars included Steve "Rich get richer" Baloff, Dick "Go for the flush" Emerson, Rob "What's Steve King's number" Alevizos, Timmy "Nay, I don't want to play this" Clifford, and indentured slave Jim Keyte...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: On the Road With the 'Crimson Dogs' | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...previous scene's show-stopper. Andrew Dorsey's lighting is extremely well-defined, further illuminating the depth of director Carpenter's compositions, and someone handles the moving spotlight very adeptly. Little flourishes spice the proceedings; when Diane Nabatoff mounts the stairs to a perch on the top deck while singing "I Get A Kick Out of You," the spotlight catches the side of the Dunster Dining Hall chandelier, casting its shadow on the piece of set below her. Intentional? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is clear: the angles are on the side of this show...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Porter Ambrosia | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

Perhaps encouraged by a smiling Anita Bryant on the billboard above, the golfers' wives re-boarded the bus with bags of real oranges to eat and sourvenir plastic oranges to keep, while Redhead June fidgetted, bumping her knees to the Rolling Stones' "Bitch" that blared from my cassette deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...common human feelings than most American men would choose to be. In spite of this his diary is never sentimental, self-pitying or gratuitously bitter. His anger at medical and educational bureaucracies, even at a fate that has dealt him what he calls "the joker in the bourgeois deck," is always tempered by stoic irony. "Instead of being a driven writer," he notes, "I have become a driving writer." Entry for Sept. 22, 1976, two days after Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream opened to rave reviews on Broadway: "It's a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better and for Worse | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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