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Word: outdoor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artsy town. It is celebrated for sun and surf and margaritas, for driving with the top down and perpetual pursuit of youth. The city's Balboa Park is full of museums, but at least one of them, the San Diego Museum of Art, is not above erecting a giant outdoor cutout of the Cat in the Hat to lure spectators to an exhibition of the drawings of Dr. Seuss. This, then, is not the sort of place where a culture vulture might expect to find one of the nation's leading regional repertory companies. And he wouldn't -- he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tyrants, Yuppies and the Bard | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...birthday bash--which includes symposia on 106 topics as diverse as Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major and the chemistry and physics of biological processes, three outdoor convocations and a closing ceremony in Soldiers Field Stadium that is expected to draw 27,000 people--will be the largest and costliest in Harvard history...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Orchestrating a Family Affair: Stephenson Juggles a Big Ball | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...University has set no rain dates for the outdoor convocations and entertainment events, and they are expected to take place as scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEATHER | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Saturday night stadium celebration will be only the finale to Harvard's five-day 350th anniversary celebration. Earlier in the week folk singers Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt '72 and Tom Rush '63 will perform an outdoor concert in Harvard Yard. And at the very start of the ceremonies, there will be a "floating birthday party" on the banks of the Charles River, complete with a 600-foot inflatable rainbow straddling the banks of the river...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Star-Studded Cast to Entertain at 350th | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...directors do not hesitate to point up themes, nor do they shy away from the unpleasant. Measure, As You Like It and the third outdoor production, the infrequently seen Titus Andronicus, all emphasize the savagery that befalls well-governed states when just men fail to hold on to power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Only 2,500 Miles From Broadway | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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