Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOOD to be true; you knew it. Three years ago everyone was listening to ELO and Jimmy Buffett and all of a sudden there was this guy Elvis Costello singing about the end of the world. Elvis became, like his eponym, the King of Rock and Roll, only now they didn't call it rock and roll, they called it the New Wave. Because it was new--that was what made it great, that somehow from this extraordinarily restricted and limited form, when all the possibilities seemed exhausted, these lunatic geniuses brought forth the rock and roll Lazarus...
Speaking in the cafeteria of Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School, which was decorated with posters urging students to vote in upcoming senior class elections, City Councilor Alfred E. Velucci demanded an end to Cambridge's ban on political advertising...
...knew even before the Sprints that they were a big, strong crew and they could take it out early. That's what they did. They were able to hold on in the middle of the race, and in such a short race, they could push it at the end...
...Altekruse notes that such a strategy would not work as well in the four-mile Sexton Cup encounter. "We knew that in a four-mile race, if we could hold them in the middle two miles, they couldn't be so psyched to pull away at the end," he says...
...American way is blessed in the end--family, competition, team spirit, college and friendship--all are affirmed in Dave's final victory. Yates creates just enough ambivalence to stop short of cuteness, but he knows better than to drop the full weight of the heavy hand of Social Conscience on Breaking Away. He pushes ahead to an upbeat finish...