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THEY HAVE THIS CONTEST at Dunkin' Donuts. Buy a coffee or a cruller and you get a small, rectangular card. Back in the car, coffee resting on the floor, scratch the little wax squares off the card with your thumbnail; some luck and you've won "Tic Tac Dough." On the back are the odds against winning--an even chance would require drinking something more than a million cups of coffee...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

...months. Kicks, produced, directed, choreographed and emceed by an exuberant Frenchman named Peter Jackson, consists of ten numbers, which are periodically changed, performed to taped music that ranges from the Beatles to Wagner. The show runs for 56 minutes. Says Jackson: "An American audience starts to scratch after an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Kicks Above the Big Apple | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

When the New York Islanders first reached the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975, a scant three years after starting from scratch as an expansion team, hockey insiders dubbed the strong young squad "the team of the future." Fans all over Long Island sat back to await the glories sure to come. But for the luckless New Yorkers, the future was always in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The New Jersey Turnpike Cup | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Federal funds, which could run into millions of dollars, is essential in the process of building a party from scratch. As it is, the party is scratching for what funds it can get and Commoner plans a major fund drive to stock the party's treasury once the petition drives to get on the ballot...

Author: By Douglas L. Tweedale, | Title: Born-Again Populism | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

...roles seeps through each line: Vladimir speaks in verse, though Estragon is the poet. McCue and Redford mimic so subtlely that only during the second act do we notice that they mirror each other's ideas and movements. Like silent film stars, they remove their bowlers in unison to scratch their heads...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: L' Absurdite, C'est Moi | 5/1/1980 | See Source »

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