Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fireworks, the Star-Spangled Banner, universal shouts of approval followed Grant's remarks. After the speeches and 15 toasts (the last one to "the babies, as they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities"), a literary guest named Samuel Clemens responded: "We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground...
...gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a new plane with a new crew and arrived in New York about three hours late. Huffed Passenger Emory Kristof: "I haven't seen a display like that since kindergarten...
...Muslim fundamentalism evident in Iran or Muammar Gaddafi's Libya may confirm a remark by Frantz Fanon, the philosopher of Third World uprisings: the native response to imperial domination is to fall back on what is authentic, what is resistant to modernization. The mosque becomes a symbolic safe haven...
...player presses touch-sensitive colored panels instead of frets; pressure at the top of the guitar neck produces a wah-wah or vibrato effect. But Superstar 3000 looks and feels like junk, and doesn't sound like much. Toy musical instruments have always been disappointing, and computer chips haven't changed things...
...NOTEBOOK: Ugliest creature on the trip award goes to the Fordham Ram, in and out of costume... Wagner has won 19 in a row at home... Fordham lost to Yale in double overtime in New Haven last week... Sore legs award goes to Tom Mannix, who played 45 minutes against Fordham... Mario Andretti Memorial Award goes to trainer Pete Provinzano for driving excellence...