Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge black weather balloon marked "MIT" blossomed on the 45-yard line mid-way through the second quarter, and Techies disguised as Yale band members flung themselves onto the field during halftime and spelled out their school's name...
...well as pranks and plots for revenge, rivalries have produced some of the most exciting college football. In 1972 sophomore Anthony Davis burst onto the national scene by scoring six touchdowns to lead the University of Southern California over Notre Dame, 45-23. Two years later the Trojans trailed 24-0 at halftime but Davis ran the second half kickoff back for a touchdown and lead a USC rally to a 55-25 drubbing...
From tavern music, Trio then moves onto early fifties rock with a deadpan cover of "Tutti Frutti." Unfortunately, what Trio (as well as other synthopop groups) doesn't understand is that by taking the ragged, rough-shorn mania out of early rock 'n'foll, they take out its heart (and its greatness). Covers like "Tutti Frutti" don't reinterpret the originals; they lobotomise them. Trio fares a little better with "Ich Lieb den Rock'n' Roll" because it's a little faster paced, although the group should learn that power riffing does not equal energy...
Since only a small handful of journalists, including TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, had managed to get onto Grenada as the Marines landed, the vacuum caused by the censorship was quickly filled by amateurs telling their stories over ham radios to eager ears in the U.S. Notable among these was Mark Barettella, 22, of Ridgefield, N.J., a student at St. George's University medical school. While U.S. military communiques were reporting relatively light resistance, Barettella throughout the first two days of the operation broadcast vivid accounts of combat around his room at the school; he included descriptions of heavy firing...
...this rich compendium, Novelist Mordecai Richler attempts to lift humorists out of the high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most...