Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of development, Lamont has grown from a sketchy "reading" collection to a medium-sized core collection capable of supplying the readings for hundreds of courses each semester. It deserves better than defamation by the chair of the Undergraduate Council. Ann-Marie Breaux Lamont Acquisitions
...story is a span of light across space," says Billy Bathgate, the 15-year-old gangster apprentice who is the title character of E.L. Doctorow's newest work. And appropriately for a novel that mellifluously combines historical fact and invention, Billy Bathgate is itself a transporting medium...
Marcus Roberts' debut solo album, The Truth is Spoken Here, is sure to go down in the gospel of Jazz as one of the medium's great albums...
...consulting fees by several major defense contractors. He had earlier served as chief American negotiator in START talks aimed at limiting strategic nuclear missiles. He told the committee that his firm provided both Martin Marietta and LTV with information on the impact a separate INF treaty banning medium-range missiles might have on their businesses. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin suggested those contacts might create the appearance that Tower had leaked to the contractors secret information about the U.S. arms negotiating position. No, said Tower, he provided only "a sort of academic speculation on what was likely to happen...
From a commercial standpoint, futility might also describe the CBS mini- series Lonesome Dove. TV westerns went out of vogue nearly two decades ago, and remain the medium's most stubbornly unfashionable genre. Lengthy mini- series too are at a low ebb of popularity, especially after last fall's disappointing War and Remembrance. Will crowds of viewers really mosey to the set for a four-night, eight-hour saga about cowboys on the trail...