Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Windy City's grand tradition of grisly journalism reasserted itself with a vengeance. Two of the city's four major dailies have folded in the past few years, but the Tribune and Sun Times came through in classic Front Page form. On Christmas Eve, as workers began removing the first of 27 young male bodies from the crawlspace in John Gacy's basement, the old-fashioned battle was on. Until the New Year began, each day brought a new banner headline with either the words "Gacy" or "Body," or both...
...Chartrand, the owlish chairman of the Hayden Planetarium, is happy to unmask the manipulative strings attached to this particular wizard, a machine resembling a fat steel dumbbell, a monster with 9,000 eyes that moves eerily above the darkened floor of the planetarium. Explains Chartrand: "The machine moves the sun across the sky and accurately reproduces the movements both of the stars and the planets. In a sense it is a machine that can virtually take you any place in any time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing...
...1970s were the decade in which Modernism died. Its Boot Hill turned out to be the U.S., in whose hospitable soil the dreams of the pioneers of modern art and architecture lie buried, toes to the rising sun. Once they hoped the world would be made whole by new paintings and new buildings. It was not, and there is no avant-garde any more; the very phrase has been scrapped, becoming one of the historical curiosities of criticism...
...Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, announces that the Shah of Iran will spend his first annual mid-winter vacation by giving a non-credit seminar at the institute on "Coping With Modernization." The shah arrives in Cambridge with 43 teaching assistants who wear sun glasses and carry 44 revolvers, and immediately takes up residence in Eliot House...
...after a Dave Coatsworth-Alton Lister alteration, brought a bevy of technical fouls, the Sun Devils strung up nine unanswered points to take the lead back. They then ran away from a mystified Crimson team in the overtime period...