Word: karla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Idol has jumped on the bandwagon of re-recording 60s hits with the added technology of the 80s. When the songs come on the radio, in a bar, in a club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...
...time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter than usual. Today they seem attracted to the concentrated image and the fragmented line...
...yard backstroke: 1. Shawn McCluskey (BU), 28.59; 2. Karla Weller (BC), 30.42; 3. Kathy Crehan (BU), 31.04; 4. Anne Twitchell (Tufts), 31.46; 5. Tricia Paine (NU), 31.36; 6. Gina Stuart...