Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of a childlike rabbi or sweet, mysteriously innocent old Russian priest and at others times reminded you of an elderly archeologist in his comfortable classroom, musing and harking back...He pretended to enjoy the official opinion of the court, that he might be mad. 'I am the Rock,' he said thoughtfully, nodding. 'I am Captain Marvel...
...University's other forest, called Black Rock Forest, is located in Cornwall, New York. It was originally Ernest G. Stillman's private research area, before the scientist donated the 3800 acre woodland...
Harvard officials and enviromentalists clashed over a proposed sale of Black Rock three years ago. The University planned to retain the facility's approximately $2.5 million endowment, while offering up the area to a consortium of private research institutions The sale, however, has not received the approval of the Attorney General's office and is still under consideration by the State of New York...
...appeared as a record album before it reached the stage, and languished for five years between the French and British productions. The original creators, Composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length and consisted of a dozen tableaux vivants accompanied by incidental music during ponderous scene changes. A year later Mackintosh heard...
...brightest, as brilliant as the planet Venus and visible during the daytime; its appearance was noted not only by the Chinese and Japanese but possibly also by Indians in the American Southwest. The New World evidence comes in the form of images carved and painted on rock walls in northern Arizona showing a celestial object adjacent to a crescent moon. There is no proof that this primitive artwork represents the supernova, but archaeological dating techniques show the Indians were in the area when the star flared, and astronomers have calculated that the supernova indeed appeared in the sky very close...