Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fairbanks, Pananen worked for a short time as a plumber and then behind the counter at the local MacDonalds. Unhappy with both jobs, he reconsidered his decision to leave Harvard...
...harshest blow for the Crimson squad came when pole vaulter Mike Short missed the vaulting pit and fell to the ground, fracturing his left elbow...
...four novels, the setting is Albany, but not the Prohibition dives and Depression-haunted back streets populated by the likes of Legs Diamond and drifting members of the Phelan family. This time out the year is 1849 and the narrative mode has changed from naturalistic to headlong melodramatic. In short order, an exotic singer and dancer named Magdalena Colon drowns while being ferried across the ice-clogged Hudson River en route from Albany to a theatrical engagement in Troy. The entertainer's body and the shivering form of her surviving niece Maud, 12, are fished out of the current...
TRACY CHAPMAN: TRACY CHAPMAN (Elektra). Forthright, angry new folk music from a 24-year-old Bostonian. Short on subtlety, maybe, but supple and generous of heart...
...TALE OF LEAR. Japanese avant-garde Director Tadashi Suzuki and four U.S. regional theaters jointly create an incantatory short version of Shakespeare's tragedy, now at StageWest in Springfield, Mass...