Word: romps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SARBANES' ROMP. A cool, low-keyed Rhodes scholar with an English wife, Congressman Paul Sarbanes appears to be riding to victory in a contentious Senate race in Maryland. Sarbanes, 43, a three-term Representative from a blue-collar district in Baltimore, leads in the latest Sunpapers poll by 17 percentage points over incumbent U.S. Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., 49, who has been hurt by his acknowledged acceptance of unreported campaign funds from the Nixon Administration in 1970. Sarbanes, who attended Princeton on scholarship, later Oxford University and Harvard Law School, comes from a Greek working-class background...
Grogan passed for three touchdowns and ran for two others in the Shafer Stadium romp...
Last year, ABC covered Harvard's romp over the Brown Bruins in Providence, a game in which TV heated the battle for the Ivy crown. Restic, who says he's not even conscious that he's on the tube once the initial whistle blows, believes that players lose sight of the TV aspects as the game progresses...
...Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also a three-year-old orphaned nephew whom they are raising. Also about eight other children (it is hard to keep count) who don't quite live there but sort of romp around and squeal. Also a neighborhood cat. "I'm the only woman in the neighborhood who doesn't work full time, so I take care of everybody's children," says Do?a Eloina. "People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they don't understand. Children...
Scarlatti Romp. If contemporary jazz has a new cynosure, it is Pianist Keith Jarrett, 31. A virtuoso performer who was trained in the classics, Jarrett is a flawless, controlled technician who scales melodic altitudes that recall the late piano genius Art Tatum. Jarrett's great gift is improvisation, which he weaves effortlessly for as much as 25 minutes at a sitting. His textures are densely contrapuntal, his melodies sometimes Chopinesque. At one moment he can sound like a Latin band on the march, at another like Copland playing variations on Elliott Carter, at still another like Scarlatti in a rhythm...