Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting, we later discovered, had focused on ways to respond to the Cambodian seizure of the merchant ship Mayaguez (see cover story). Unruffled by the developing crisis, the President greeted us warmly and leafed through the special edition. He paused at the People section, laughing over colonial Dr. Benjamin Rush's prognosis of ten extra years of life for anyone taking up a newly imported game called golf...
...classes at Harvard get used to empty seats and irritable students. Most undergraduates rarely make it to breakfast here, which means that by 11:30, hunger begins to rival academic curiosity. Animal appetites often prevail, so that the weak begin trickling out around 11:50, hoping to beat the rush at lunch. Students with 12:00 classes either desert outright or file glumly into their classrooms and slump deeply in their chairs, glaring at the professor as if to say, "This lecture had better be good...
...after these few nauseating moments--the death is as distanced as the inaudible thud of a body falling 135 stories.) At the end, gelignite releases a flood of one million gallons of water from the water towers on top of the roof, extinguishing the fire in a tremendous rush of steam as it rushes through the burnt out central core of the building and pours off all four edges of the roof. The Tower becomes a 135-story fiery fountain of cascading water against a perfectly black background. The beauty of scenes like this obviously have nothing to do with...
Mabou Mimas is a prominent mime group and part of the Loeb's program of bringing in outside non-dramatic theater. "B-Beaver" begins at 8 p.m,. "The Lost Ones" at 9:30 p.m. Mime must be a pretty expensive art to produce, since tickets are a steep $4.95 (rush seats are available...
After the five-year monotony of one-night rock stands, Flack was becoming ill. Successful or struggling, a musical performer's life is lonely and difficult. "All of a sudden you get that rush of 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 people-THE WORLD. All these people love me, you think. Then you're back in a hotel room by yourself in Missouri, your stomach hurts, and your humanness just overwhelms you." Flack had an epic case of growing pains...