Word: firmament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not be found-or recorded on film-in the natural world. But now, in the postStar Wars era, stories are created merely to provide a feeble excuse for the effects. Star Trek consists almost entirely of this kind of material: shot after shot of vehicles sailing through the firmament to the tune of music intended to awe. But the spaceships take an unconscionable amount of time to get anywhere, and nothing of dramatic or human interest happens along the way. Once the ships reach their destination, they do not encounter the kind of boldly characterized antagonists that made Star...
...high level in the executive suite for months, and last week's events were hardly likely to reduce it. The final Nielsen ratings for the regular 1978-79 television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual...
...decaying sprawl of industrial and residential space that is East Cambridge. In recent years, Inman Square has become the site of several good bars, some firstclass restaurants and a dinner theater. Last Wednesday the venerable intersection established further claim to its position in Cambridge's cultural firmament with the opening of the Off-Broadway Theatre on Hampshire Street, in the garage-like structure that was the home of The Proposition until last summer. The Off-Broadway Theatre is a professional company that plans short runs of a wide variety of theatrical genres at current rates, which means fairly expensive...
...brightest starts in the Harvard football firmament when Sadow was an undergraduate were Art French and Dave Guaranacca, who played from 1926-29, while the head coach was none other than Horween. French and Guaranacca were known as "the lateral twins" because they excelled in pitching the ball and then throwing it to one other, a technique Sadow says they learned from two Canadian coaches who came to Cambridge to proselytize the forerunner of the multiflex...
Travel with me now, down a little lower on the back of your Bursars card, yes, the sacroiliac region--where the signature is. Start rubbing. Rub hard!!! Harder!!! That's it... You see it? What's the opposite of "firmament," in the biblical sense? You got it--VOID. All over where your signature used to be. VOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOID etc. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Everybody should rub their signatures off their Bursars cards, and see how long it takes for anybody to notice. A couple of years, I bet. And by then you'll almost be out of Law School...