Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everett, director of bands at Harvard, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year-long dedication to the Jazz Band. Everett received, among other things, an engraved dish from the OFA, a letter from jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson affectionately describing him as being "from another planet" and heartfelt thanks and appreciation from band alumni...
...competed with Muppets and dinosaurs for space on my fledgling bookshelf. Back then a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City was a special treat, and a morning of cartoons would not be complete without the extraterrestrial antics of the Jetsons. I knew the position of each planet relative to the sun in addition to the names of all the early astronauts. The capstone of my childhood space career occurred one day in kindergarten, when Mrs. Isidore brought in a transistor radio so we could listen as the first space shuttle ascended into orbit...
...proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created Planet Earth. Believers will live eternally in hairless, toothless bodies that are free of disease and decay...
...have lost their faith, so they dip into sleaze news, snickering as they scan the more imaginative tabloids. Others have replaced belief in God or government by faith in more eccentric notions; they look to the stars, to Star Trek. According to polls, 40% think aliens have visited our planet; 70% believe in a J.F.K. assassination conspiracy. Hey, didn't a U.S. missile shoot down TWA Flight 800? In January, you know, Elvis turned 62. Just recently, he cashed his first Social Security check...
...trying to buy its way onto the dial, as channels like Fox News and Animal Planet (from the creators of the Discovery Channel) have done by offering money to cable systems in return for carrying them. Yet CBS does have some potential clout to wield. It could hold up permission for cable systems to retransmit local CBS stations unless they agree to pick up Eye on People--a tactic the other broadcast networks have used in order to get wider distribution for their start-up cable ventures...