Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a hell of a lot of collegiality around here, and it's just getting better. You have people whose whole lives revolve around this," Robinson says...
...sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid he ever...
Avram Patt shifts his straw hat and announces that the next song will be Wild Night in Odessa. Then he goes back to his drums, and all hell breaks loose. The six-member Nisht Geferlach klezmer band erupts into the raucous, sometimes haunting music that one member describes as "Dixieland meets Eastern Europe." Patt, 37, the soloist, explains every song in English before singing in fluid Yiddish, his language of record as a boy in the Amalgamated cooperative houses in the West Bronx...
...Kolombus (Long Live Columbus), a staple of the old Yiddish theater that once thrived along New York City's Second Avenue. The music is as mystifying as it is exotic to most folks in these parts. "People walk up to us all the time and say, 'What the hell was that?' " reports Accordion Player Rick Winston...
Japan is also suffering relentless traffic tie-ups on its narrow streets. In the past decade, the number of registered vehicles in Tokyo has jumped 49%, to 5.2 million, but roads have been expanded only about 4%. Everyday traffic is called tsukin jigoku, or commuting hell. Even so, most Japanese look upon the crowding as a traditional problem that poses no grave threat to their country's productivity...