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Word: sittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Answer: Five. One to tell the Lampoon's agent to do it, and four to sit around and pat each other on the back for being so darn funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greed Humor | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...four CCA-endorsed members who sit on the council introduced a three-pronged reform package, which was referred to the council's ordinance committee for further study...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: City Council to Consider Ethics Regulations | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

Woody goes after that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout. You sit there and listen to the primal sound of the water whooshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Where The Skyline Meets the Shore | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

These problems were limiting the appeal of skiing, he told the Aspen Skiing executives, but could be dealt with in a school "where people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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