Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garden of Eden, published this spring, is an odd, interesting ingredient in the Hemingway psychomyth. Hemingway began the novel in early 1946, but it ran away from him, swelling to hundreds of thousands of words. He tried over the years to cut it down and make it manageable, but it was still a mess when he died. An editor at Scribner's pruned the manuscript to a tight and coherent 65,000 words...
Broadway theatergoers proved last week that they still long for carefree exuberance. The street's newest hit, which ran its advance sales up to $2.5 million within days after opening, is a sweet, sentimental throwback called Me and My Girl. Produced in 1937 in London, it made a hit of The Lambeth Walk, ran four years and survived being bombed out of two venues during World War II. Painstakingly reconstructed from sketchy records by the composer's son and revived in the West End last year, Me and My Girl treats its material with respect: there is no modernization...
...official. In effect, it was also Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's June 23 letter outlining Soviet arms proposals vs. President Reagan's July 25 counteroffer. With those documents as their bibles, the two teams sparred across a green felt table for two days as each exhaustively ran down its prepared script. Only in the last hours did the discussions get intense, as each side sought to pin down more precisely what the other side's complex and often ambiguous proposals meant. Explained a senior U.S. official: "We talked a lot about broad concepts of offense and defense, what...
...most fashionable boulevards, momentarily became a runway last week. The stunt occurred after the street had been closed to traffic for the shooting of a promotional film to aid Paris' bid for the 1992 Olympic Games. As the cameras rolled and 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Hurdler Guy Drut ran, torch in hand, up the deserted avenue, a blue, single-engine Rallye-Club suddenly zoomed in over the Arc de Triomphe and put down in a perfect landing...
Most scientists agree that the small-brained australopithecines were the first manlike creatures to walk upright, 3.5 million or more years ago, and that their evolution ran parallel to that of humanity's direct ancestors. The dispute arises over details. Some researchers, including Anthropologist Donald Johanson, director of the Berkeley-based Institute of Human Origins, think that a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the celebrated 3 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy, was the common ancestor of all later australopithecines, as well as man. The two branches, they say, split about 3 million years ago, with the Australopithecus line...