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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they made the Bears go all the way back to the Blue Jays' 50-yard line, and the Bears had to kick a bunt. To everyone's surprise, the puck flew off course, right into the center field bleachers and hit someone in the ear. But then the siren went off, signalling the end of the second round, and everyone switched sides, just like in red rover...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: First Down, Five Months to Go | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

Kate Rooney, a former administrator at Princeton, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Boston City Hospital, will fill the newly created post of associate dean for administration at the Graduate School of Design...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD Administrator | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...concerto combines twelve-tone serial procedures with traditional structural designs. From a sonata-form first movement, it moves through a ternary slow movement to a rondo finale. He uses a 12-tone row, both forwards and backwards, but the piece is still easier to follow by ear than most serial works. Cordero's orchestration is so skillful that even the rambunctious finale never swamps the solo violin. Like its famous Alban Berg predecessor of 1936, this work is a rare masterpiece among serial violin concertos...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Black String Musicians: Ascending the Scale | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

...well, participating, albeit in somewhat contrived fashion. Involvement in the political process rejuvenates the individual and strengthens the country. With a zeal even Tocqueville might have underestimated, the elephants trundled to the Motor City last week to climax long months of participation--or, as one clever delegate with an ear for language said, "participaction...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Candle Burning at Both Ends | 7/22/1980 | See Source »

...strange, burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know's." Their most famous routines include a dreamy song called 'Basketball Jones"; and a sequence whose ear-shattering punch line is delivered by a nun to her high school class: "SHUT...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

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