Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson also showcases three-sport phenomenon Char Joslin, who moonlights as a Harvard midfielder during the ice hockey and lacrosse off-seasons. Last year, Joslin came on strong at the end of the season--as freshmen sometimes do--and recorded a goal and three assists. She finished second in the Ivy League Rookie of the Year balloting behind Yale goalie Sue Sabatino and earned second team All-Ivy honors...
First-time challenger Ed Cyr says he is "trying to bring the Al Vellucci phenomenon into the 1980s." The former student activist favors rent control--but brags of his French Canadian ethnic roots in North Cambridge and calls the CCA a "wine-and-cheese organization...
...past several decades, south polar levels plunge by as much as 50% each September, then rebound. The discovery of the hole was announced in 1985 by a team led by Joseph Farman, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. Since then, researchers have flocked south to study the phenomenon...
First-time challenger Ed Cyr says he is "trying to bring the Al Vellucci phenomenon into the 1980s." The former student activist favors rent control--but brags of his French Canadian ethnic roots in North Cambridge and calls the CCA a "wine-and-cheese organization...
...there were plentiful rumors and heavyweight expectations about Michael Jackson's first solo record in five years. Among other things, the new album had to meet and match his 1982 Thriller, which sold an unprecedented 38.5 million copies around the world and made him into a pop-culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate but never lustful. Radio programmers grumbled at Epic's choice of a low-profile make-out tune...