Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devilish New Jerseyites have already displayed an abundance of Black Magic. Down by four touchdowns to Bucknell the second game of the year, the Tigers roared back to a 46-28 victory. When an orange and black cat crosses your path, you're not in for good luck...
...knew we would have to work some double magic to have John Anderson pull ahead of both Reagan and Carter," says Patrick F. Lucey of his 1980 stint as the National Unity Party's Vice Presidential candidate, "but working for him was the only honest thing I could...
UMass seems assured an at-large bid to next month's tourney, banking on its impressive 10-0-1 record. But the Crimson will have to continue its Ivy magic to snag it first-ever postseason bid. With its 3-0 league mark. Harvard need win only two of its last three Ivy match-ups to reach the playoffs...
...Research Projects Agency to give key civilian researchers access to military computers, ARPANET could also be reached over telephone lines by anyone with a home terminal and the proper phone number. Hundreds of "tourists" have roamed through the system, many of them teen-agers who rode it like a magic carpet to computerland. The network's lines have been used for Dungeons & Dragons duels and its electronic mail system as a dating service. Far more serious, according to officials, attempts to tap into coded classified data have become increasingly bold...
Malamud's world reveals itself bit by bit: a place of stony certainties and infrangible laws, brightened occasionally by enclaves of unexpected magic. Those who live here are predominantly poor, oppressed by hard work. Most are men without women. More than half the heroes in these stories are bachelors or widowers. There are also a few male characters for whom marital status hardly matters: a talking horse named Abramowitz, a bedraggled black bird who claims he is Jewish and calls himself Schwartz. The main character in a story called The Model speaks for most of Malamud...