Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some listeners may not like Mahler's aesthetic in the first three movements. But anyone who tripped watching 50 helicopters roaring in with Ride of the Valkyries to get the "slopes" can't miss Abbado's finale. Get in a bathing suit and ride the surfboard on cue. Mahler, too, enjoyed swimming...
...WHOLE ALBUM--taking a cue from the title--seems devoted to the growing middle-American fantasy of donning one's Frye boots and Stetson, grabbing a Miller, and riding a bucking bronco out west. America is now Marlboro Country and it's hard to miss the growing fascination with ranch types on TV commercials, or the fact that Kenny Rogers sold $45 million worth of records last year. Steely Dan has joined the stampede. Granted, it might be parodying the way of life, but even that's not clear...
Carter will miss the daily contact with his band of Georgia loyalists, and last week he invited four of them to the White House for a seven-course dinner cooked by a Chinese chef. There were warm embraces when the meal ended. Another evening, Carter became so nostalgic that he broke out a bottle of vodka that had been given to him by Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna in 1979 and reminisced with some of his cronies about the early political years and the lost campaign. The Carters invited Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife to sleep in the Lincoln...
Runners-up for Miss Tacky, 1980: Elizabeth Taylor ("Not one movie star has worse taste"); Suzanne Somers (a fashion plate of "recycled spaghetti") and Bo Derek ("a butterfly wearing her cocoon...
...Skidmore or a Mount Holyoke it never was. But Colorado Women's College in Denver had improved academically from the finishing school that used to produce Miss Americas (1955 and 1974), splendid skiers and fine wives for cadets at the nearby Air Force Academy. Still, over the past decade enrollment had dropped from 1,100 to 509, and last week the school's debt stood at $5.6 million. President Sherry Manning, 37, a University of Colorado Ph.D. in management science, felt that drastic measures were needed. She stunned the campus by announcing that because of "financial exigency...