Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official debut will take place in Atlanta this week on the 99th anniversary of the original product's birth. The company will transform the city's downtown park into a three-ring circus. Theme for the day: "Step right up to the greatest taste on earth." Coke will also be launching 25,000 red and white balloons, skywriters, banner-flying planes and a skyful of fireworks. Said Coca-Cola Spokesman Robert Hope in a moment of candor: "We're using every glitzy thing you can imagine...
...Cudjoe Key, Fla., Fat Albert sways lazily in the breeze, but he is in fact a tireless worker. This 200,000-cu.-ft. helium balloon is one of three deployed in Florida and the Bahamas that are on the lookout for drug smugglers and helping with other intelligence-gathe ring activities...
Coming from the man who, in Love Story, captured the Harvard of the early '60s right down to 'Cliffie bitchiness and the secular religion that is Crimson hockey, it's no surprise that the college portions of the novel ring true. The one problem here is that the period 1954-58 was not, to put it mildly, a time of campus unrest or even great social shakeups. Segal makes up for this with painstaking accounts of such bygone rigors as the Step Test and the Swim Test, while ignoring real campus news like the hockey heyday of Bob (really...
...worried that the phone will ring at the wrong time." Ronis said, adding that he couldn't disconnect it because the phone is supposed to ring during the play...
...there you have it. I've sunk as low as a critic can go. I've used (sob!) a superlative, a commendation that will probably condemn me to the seventh ring of Rex Reed's private hell. Too bad: Thompson's Berklee show, and the man, deserve nothing less