Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Play the record over a span of two days or your life will seem too short...
hours, but Reagan's will be held to one, to accommodate TV's limited attention span. Explains Event Chairman Terry Chambers: "President-elect Reagan asked for a short snappy parade." As a result, dozens of high school bands casually invited by Candidate Reagan during the campaign have been quietly disinvited. Only 20 bands, including one from Reagan's home town, Dixon, Ill., will march on Jan. 20; the rest will be asked to play concerts on the White House lawn some time later. The parade will...
Although Reagan was expected to name a woman or minority member to the Education post-and two prospects reportedly turned the offer down-national education groups are delighted with Bell's nomination. Has he made a deal with Reagan about the department's life span? Says Bell: "There's no firm commitment to anything except to look at alternatives. It might be an agency at a sub-Cabinet level, or it might be a separate standing agency, or it might be retention of the present structure." Whatever the department's fate. Bell can be counted...
...Reed: Rock and Roll Diary, 1967-1980 (Arista, 2 LPs). The full span and impact of a seminal career. Not quite a diary; more like rock notes from underground...
...read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter than usual. Today they seem attracted to the concentrated image and the fragmented line...