Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indecisive, delaying for a full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there. I'm going to keep the keys to keep the dream alive...
...coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water but light was pouring and shattering into its colors." Doctorow eventually accounts for Billy's erudition, but by that time, no explanation is really required. Billy's voice has long since justified both itself and the unique power of the written word: it is convincing, mesmerizing...
From Austin Peay to MSG: March 13, 1987. Providence University, led by its 3-point shooting "Rainbow Coalition" and such household names as Jacek Duda and David Kipfer, squeeze out a secound-round NCAA tournament victory in overtime over Austin Peay State. Providence goes on to the Final Four...
...THORN EMI conglomerate said it will pay $337 million to take over the music-publishing interests of SBK Entertainment World, based in Los Angeles. The U.S. company owns more than 250,000 songs, among them classic MGM motion-picture melodies like Singin' in the Rain and Over the Rainbow, as well as tunes written by James Taylor, Luther Vandross, the late Marvin Gaye and many other pop singers...
...retrospect the most startling thing about the team's success is that their creativity was far from unique. In the heyday of Broadway musicals, nearly every season brought a landmark production, often two or three. The 1946-47 season that introduced Brigadoon, for example, also provided Finian's Rainbow. The 1956-57 season of My Fair Lady was, in addition, the season of Bells Are Ringing, Candide, The Most Happy Fella and Li'l Abner. The 1960-61 debut season of Camelot saw as well the arrival of Irma la Douce, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Bye Bye Birdie...