Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Last time" was the spring of 1973, when Phase III wage and price controls were in effect and the U.R.W. signed a contract providing a 6.2% maximum annual pay and benefits increase and containing no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provision. Since then, prices have risen so fast that the...
J.S. Bach's incessant running up and down scales turned the first motif of "1-2-3-4-5-6," holding up each finger in fast succession, into breathless slapstick. Choreographer Black added other motifs one by one--slow-motion rolling, runner's ready position, broad glissades--and bumped one...
It was 7:30 on a Saturday night; the cast of American in Purgatory was preparing its closing performance. The Agassiz Theater lies a grassy fifty yards from the Loeb but seems shabby genteel by comparison. the dressing rooms huddle in the basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members...
Sal D'agostino (190 lbs.) whipped his opponent, 6-1. Then came the most devastating spectacle of the season. Harvard's heavyweight, Kip Smith, tips the scales at 240 pounds, but looked small beside the agile giant MIT trotted out.
In this mini-Manhattan, Wall Street is a few paces long, the aluminum-sheathed prisms of the World Trade Center are 30 feet high, and though you can get on the Staten Island Ferry and feel it shiver under your feet, it can only carry half a dozen riders at...