Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard of New Year's Eve skinny dipping, but this is ridiculous!" said Mark Weiss...
...lectures for 1985-86. Calvino conceived the lectures as memos, terse essays about aspects of prose style that had marked his own fiction and would be important for the literature of the future. Calvino identified six qualities: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. At his death, on the eve of his departure for America, he had written and completed the first five of these lectures...
...Yale's drama school, who offered the plays a home -- staging them at Yale and later on Broadway. Ma Rainey, the first of their collaborations, depicts a 1920s blues singer who deals with segregation by staying fiercely within a black subculture. Fences, set in the 1950s on the eve of the civil rights era, centers on an embittered former baseball player, too old for the majors when the color bar fell...
...tired of arguments comparing Opening Day fans to Adam and Eve, pre-serpent. I'm tired of people insisting that Opening Day induces a blissful state of innocence and encourages fans to believe that any and all dreams may be realized...
...true fan really believes, on the eve of Opening Day, that all teams are equal. The magic of an Opening Day lies not in innocence but in wisdom; Adam and Eve would have been lousy baseball fans...