Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what he hears: after all, he owns the station. With a few breaks, he will type until what he calls "beer o'clock" -- about 5 p.m. He has been known to work into the night. The output is some ten pages a day, although with a Wang computer, "the sky's the limit." Before him lies a handful of works in progress. There is the second installment of a five-story science-fantasy cycle, The Dark Tower, featuring Roland, the Last Gunslinger, on the track of his grail. Then there is the uncut version of The Stand. Then there...
...many pilots sympathize with Kramer, who had to take off directly under a TCA and was new to the area. Said Art Patstone, an air-show pilot from Ann Arbor, Mich.: "There's no sign in the sky that says, STOP, YOU'RE ENTERING...
...Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN HANCOCK -- one of eight Harvard men, thank you, who signed the Declaration of Independence -- and at the climax a 700-sq.-ft. Harvard logo will be emblazoned on the night sky as the band plays Fair Harvard...
...young person's education is to know who he is and where he is going, then the oldest and richest U.S. institution of higher learning may still be doing as fine a job as ever. And, after all, Harvard can be indulged for writing its name against the sky, although it may no longer belong there alone...
...special advantages for dealing in deadpan ironies. Even before the eye takes in the subjects of Mary Ellen Mark's photo essay on Miami, the sheer chromatic punch says that Florida is a great setting for the human comedy. The lemony sunlight, the all too scrumptious blue of the sky: even the elements are in on the joke. And surprise, they make a perfect foil for the elderly locals, who strut with a vehemence that she finds both funny and fetching...