Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, set to begin in mid-May will seek to counter recent criticism that the Center is no longer the premier institution in its field, having gradually fallen behind Soviet studies programs at other major universities because of a lack of funds, officials said...
From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
...rose to national fame during World War II as head of the clandestine National Resistance Council, but descended into ignominy and exile after leading the clandestine right-wing resistance to Charles de Gaulle's Algeria policy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Camboles-Bains, France. After serving as Premier and Foreign Minister in several postwar Cabinets, he resigned from the government in 1958, finally fled the country in 1962 after his parliamentary immunity from arrest was lifted because of his support for the terrorist Secret Army Organization. He returned six years later under a De Gaulle amnesty...
...times have changed for the Cambridge native. After three years of many nights and lows, the senior center has emerged as one of the nation's premier hockey players...
...arbitrary choices. They simply picked five bands that they had heard of. Did it ever occur to these student council members that there are many more than five bands on campus that they did not bother to consider? Can they honestly tell us that these are the five premier bands on campus when they have not heard a note of music from any other bands...