Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit in June sold out before you could decide whether it was still worth it. Not like New York, where the Stones are always humming in the air anyway, and where a Mao-like billboard spans Times Square hailing their arrival. And not like 1972, when the band's sweep across the country didn't leave you much choice. There's still a chance of getting to the June 11 and 12 concerts, though, as people were allowed to buy four tickets each and a lot of scalping is bound to go on--at decadent prices. They...
...Harvard tennis team travelled to Middlebury last weekend to sweep all three of the singles divisions of the New England Championships...
...final story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays...
...soft spoken Marxist, Samphan is expected to try to transform his nation into a one-party Communist-dominated state. In fact, in those areas that have been controlled by the insurgents for some time, there have been zealous efforts to sweep away the traditional easygoing habits of old Cambodia. A highly politicized, regimented life has been stressed, peasants have been herded into communes, and the state has acquired a dominant authority over private activities...
Martin is not much given to levity these days. Soft-spoken and articulate, he argues: "Certain people back home are trying to sweep things under the rug. The way I read history, it is determined by what people did or didn't do." The theme is echoed by one of Martin's admirers in the embassy, who says: "The ambassador has been hit so much that he no longer cares whom he annoys. He is only thinking of historical results, and he wants to be on the right side...