Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After thirty years of saxophonic transcendence, Pharoah Sanders has finally come to resemble his ancient Egyptian predecessors in appearance. Capped by a cylindrical black hat, with his long white beard flowing majestically onto his purple-span-gled shirt and sporting a nasty pair of shades, Sanders cut a mean figure at the Regattabar last Saturday night. The other members of the Pharoah Sanders Quartet wore loose-fitting African clothing, creating an atmosphere quite at odds with the upscale Regattabar and its corporate clientele. Unfortunately, it was only the visual appearance of Pharoah's group that was striking, as the saxophone...
Then Dartmouth took over. Wallis Cook tallied two in a row for the visitors and Devens added another--all in a 1:19 span, and all with less than three minutes left in the half. Harvard would never be close to the lead again...
...Deal defection is part of a larger movement that has made the current Congress the first since Reconstruction in which Republicans hold a majority of the 125 House seats that span the old Confederacy. Deal is also emblematic of the loss to the Democratic Party of the much sought after white-male voter. Senator Sam Nunn is the only white Democrat left in Georgia's congressional delegation, and friends say he is thinking seriously of retiring next year. Concludes Merle Black of Emory University: "The South is moving toward having a white Republican Party and a black, and very small...
...issue has been drummed into the ground through two weeks of debate, and at tonight's student forum at the Institute of Politics, we'll probably see the dust jump a little more .But before Grant slips away from our national attention span, it might be useful to take one last look at the whole debate...
Despite some self-generated speculation that he'd run for governor of Indiana, Dan Quayle has decided that downward mobility is not in his political future. "The only office I am interested in is running for the presidency," the former vice president told C-SPAN today. "I'm going to enjoy Indiana, going to enjoy my family and see what happens." Quayle had set himself a Memorial Day deadline to decide on a GOP gubernatorial...