Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Audubon Society Book of Water Birds (Abrams; 256 pages; $35) presents enthralling photographs of creatures that seem made for metaphor. They are clouds hovering pink and white across the surface of a lake, dive bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty...
Minnesota (15-3), Lake Superior St. (14-3-3) and Maine (11-2-2) occupy the first three slots. As for the Crimson, a good showing against national competition in Long Island just might give Harvard some further recognition in the rankings...
...eclectic bunch: a self-proclaimed prophet and polygamist, a psychic and a weekly Iranian news and music show broadcast in Farsi. But many people were outraged by a program that premiered last month on the 10,000-watt radio station located some 15 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The Aryan Nations Hour, whose host was White Supremacist Dwight McCarthy, is a Saturday-morning call- in show for bigots who believe a race war is inevitable...
...this particular evening, lip sync as entertainment lives at a club called City Slickers, down the hall behind a real estate office on the main street in Lake Geneva, Wis. Tonight is the culmination of a lengthy sequence of preliminary contests, with ten winners from previous weeks competing for the championship prize -- a trip for two to Las Vegas or $438 cash. Four judges will score them on originality, costume, showmanship, audience reaction and the all-important ability to get the words right. Two points off for "swallowing the mike," but, of course, tonight's talent is beyond that. They...
Denver and North Dakota have both fallen from the national rankings and little Lake Superior State University (it's no longer a college) has cracked the top five...