Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aroused by the anniversary issue. Greil Marcus's sensitive feature on Graham Parker and Dave Marsh's cutting review of a recent Rod Stewart concert prove that Rolling Stone remains an important publication that should be taken seriously, Jann Wenner's megalomania notwithstanding. But judging from the double-barrelled fiasco marking the tenth birthday of his magazine, Wenner would be well-advised to make the next celebration of a Rolling Stone landmark a more private affair...
...Even more annoying was the fact that, because U.S. officials were not aware of the big Soviet purchases, the grain was sold under a Government subsidy program, which meant that U.S. taxpayers paid for much of the Russian grain bought in the U.S. To avoid a replay of that fiasco, in 1975 Washington got Moscow to agree to a long-range sales arrangement intended to stabilize Russian grain purchases and do away with at least some of the secrecy surrounding them. Under the plan, Moscow is required to buy at least 6 million tons of U.S. grain every year...
...last month, in fact, has been like a sandwich with fresh rolls and leftover salami The Dartmouth game was immense. The Penn performance was awesome enough. In between, the Princeton and Brown contests were farces. In particular, the Princeton fiasco, where only an adequate performance was needed for Harvard to be fighting for sole possession of the title tomorrow...
...when, in the third quarter of that fiasco, Cornell's Dave Johnson retrieved a high snap from center on a punt attempt, found an opening down the left sideline and sloshed 75 yards for the game's lone touchdown, more than just Harvard's talent advantage was wiped out. So was its undefeated season, and so was its pride...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...