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Word: drumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Double features are double fun, said Donald N. Fawcett '89, who is interested in seeing Breaker Morant and The Tin Drum...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Double Features Return for Movie Buffs | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

Light also testified that he won an acquittal for Billy ("Wild Bill") Cutola, a Teamsters Union official who, he said, shot a suspected informant in the head. According to Light, the victim was stuffed into a 55-gal. drum, which Cutola then dumped into the East River. As Light tells it, the body's gases caused the drum to rise to the surface. "Next time, I'll know better," a jocular Cutola reportedly told Light after he was cleared of the murder charge. "I'll cut his stomach open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting the Family | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST Daniel Bell tells of trying to drum up funding for a 50-person commission to predict how society would change by the year 2000. He appealed to and eventually received financial support from the Ford Foundation in 1964, but not before undergoing some questioning...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: For Whom the Bell Tells | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...title of a Sex Pistols bootleg; however, there is little evidence of punk influence on this record. Vocals are strongly imitative of circa-1977 David Bowie, though occasionally a glint of Billy Idol's solo work also comes through. In general, the sound suffers from blatant overuse of drum machines and synthesizers...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Goldilocks Rock | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

Indeed, Giotto's mission is by far the most grueling of the five. Looking rather like an oil drum with an upended beach umbrella stuck on top, the 5-ft. by 6-ft. probe was launched from Kourou, French Guiana, last July; as of last week it was 21 million miles from earth and nearly three times as far from Halley's. The little ship and everything on it are built for survival, and with good reason. The dust particles around the nucleus are expected to strike Giotto with such great velocity that a speck weighing a tenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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