Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best friends despite the racial barriers that separate their respective families. The two-hour opening show introduces the boys and their parents with the dubious aid of a very frail plot mechanism. The white father, a grocer (Beeson Carroll), mistakenly overcharges his black counter part, a blacksmith (Bill Duke), by $3.47 on a monthly bill. What follows is an escalating series of conflicts that not only sets blacks against whites, but husbands against wives and parents against children. Eventually the K.K.K. makes grotesque threats, boycotts start to destroy the town's economy, and it seems that a new Civil...
Purdue 68, Duke...
...Princeton 400 UNC 408 Wyoming 428 ASU 318 Tennessee 325 Arkansas 244 Iowa 488 Yale 191 Clemson 305 Brig Young 284 Scores USC 271 Alabama 307 Houston 163 Minnesota 349 Dartmouth 156 Virginia 234 Hawaii 191 Arizona 236 Georgia 131 Tex A&M 119 Ohio State 278.5 Army 141 Duke 181 Colo St. 178 Stanford 158 LSU 112 Tex Tech 87 Wisconsin 231 LaSalle 109 Maryland 169 New Mex 168 Wash 65 Kentucky 60 TCU 59 Purdue 184 Cornell 102 Wake Forest 67 San Dgo St. 117 Oregon 48 Vanderbilt 37 Rice 30 Illinois 175 Columbia 101 Georgia Tech...
...former Indiana University superswimmer did not quit; he kept swimming and that summer joined the great Duke Kahanamoko, as the only American swimmers to go to three Olympics...
...next piece, "A Cruise to the Moon," develops this line of thinking still further. Lunch has fused a smooth, swinging piece reminiscent of Duke Ellington's prime with a completely separate bit of raunch straight out of Teenage Jesus. She makes it all work by brilliantly counterpointing the two. The two factions alternate between dive-bomb runs and frenetic soloing. They both compete for our affections, and we are propelled by the sheer audacity and exuberance...