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Word: gem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Modest Goal. The governments of South Asia have responded with a host of emergency programs. Pakistani officials are importing $35 million worth of insecticides and spraying equipment from the U.S. Authorities in Sri Lanka are trying to crack down on illegal gem miners, who contribute to the malaria problem by digging pits which then fill with water in which mosquitoes breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria on the March | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...short walk up Mass Ave to the Orson Welles Complex (something many young starlets once had) is well worth it this weekend. On Sunday, Cinema 2 starts showing two of French director Claude Lelouch's films, one of which--And Now My Love--is a romantic gem. Lelouch, also responsible for A Man and A Woman, is bold enough to film a love affair and yet leave his main characters separated until the last frames. As he develops the lives of his two lovers, Lelouch also traces the history of France in the twentieth century. While his character's political...

Author: By Jeff Flanders, | Title: THE SCREEN | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...Island, N.Y. It will not come as a surprise that Pat Hingle imbues his role with the warmest humanity As Monica, Deborah Offner impressively combines girlish fantasy with bride-of-death gravity. Michael Kahn's direction is a manual of professional devotion, and the McCarter has a small gem on its hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Masque of Death | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Columbia, once the gem of the ocean, but now the Ivy League doormat, was stabbed by the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Crusaders Nip Brown, 21-20; Penn Tops Tigers; Yale Wins | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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