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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elevator. It is past midnight. A well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate in a circle around him. They reek of the peppermint smell of angel dust, and they are looking for somebody to blow away, like this turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

PORTLAND, ME.--The Harvard linksmen were bunched in the pack but still within striking distance of front-running UConn after the first round of the NCAA New England Division I tournament held here yesterday at the Portland Country Club, straddling the waters of Casco...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Linksters Trail 5 Teams In Qualifier for NCAAs | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard varsity golf team fired five sub-80 rounds in the Ivy League championships this Saturday, but a birdie blitzkrieg by Princeton. Yale and Dartmouth left the Crimson well back in the pack in sixth place, 30 shots away from victory...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Tigers Capture Golf Title; Crimson Finish in Sixth | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...further admit that she manages to combine the best features of a whole pack of other musicians (although different reviews have used different musicians to create the montage they think Rickie is). Given the rarity of female musicians on major labels, especially women who write and perform their own music instead of parasiting off everyone else, she is especially welcome...

Author: By Eric B. Friea, BOYCOTTING ALL WEEK, | Title: Making it on Their Merits | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...forms, dance has experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dancing the Night Away | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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