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Harvard's fans have responded in kind to the team's success, first filling the home stands, then flocking to the Boston Garden this weekend. The deafening clang of "the gong" and the traditional cheers that rise from the student section at Bright are both unmitigated support for the Crimson and pure nightmare for the opponents unfortunate enough to visit Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two For The Show | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Reruns, as Reagan should know, have a certain appeal for devoted fans, but they cannot stay on top of the ratings for two years in a row. The evening was saved from being a complete anticlimax only by the Democrats' quaint political Gong Show, which followed Reagan on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President: Entertainment over Substance | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

There is, of curse, a graphic and unpleasant response to that question, but a polite student with no career plans has only two ways to answer: the gong way ("I'm planning to parlay it into a billiondollar rubber empire in the South American jungle") or the honest way--"I have no idea...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Job Hunting | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night-alarm gong from the switchboard and a kick or two from his wife Barbara, who with her daughter Susan may have logged more hours than any two operators in crank-phone history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Don't Yank the Crank | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...BELLS GONG in the dark. Sirens wail. Lights fade in on three corpses on a stage...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Patchwork of Freedom | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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