Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they did it in high style, capturing five of the top eleven places -- including second, third, and fourth and sending the favored Eli's, who haven't won the event in twenty years, home to New Haven without the Main Memorial Trophy yet again...
Meet experience will be critical in the upcoming challenges; and Saturday's event provided the rest of the team with an excellent opportunity to compete, knowing that their performances would count in the team scoring...
...seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil Ludwig described the original event, "When Edison snatched up the spark of Prometheus in his little pear-shaped glass bulb, it meant that fire had been discovered for the second time, that mankind had been delivered again from the curse of night...
...even that event will probably be transmogrified into comedy. For in Brooks' philosophy, laughter is the only effective painkiller available without a doctor's prescription. "If I were dying in a hospital of a terminal disease," says Taxi Star Judd Hirsch, "I would want Jim Brooks to come in and direct me on how to die. I'm pretty sure he would come up with something positive...
Mailer has tested this magic on the Viet Nam War, American presidential politics, the women's movement, the moon program. He tries it now upon another American public event that possessed, even before he wrote about it, a certain Mailerian quality: the execution, early in 1977, of Gary Gilmore, 36, a Utah murderer who refused to appeal his conviction and death sentence and demanded that the state kill him. Utah obliged, but only after a ritual that turned Gilmore into a grotesque celebrity. Shortly before the prisoner was seated in front of a dirty mattress to face the firing...