Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MONEY kept rolling," in sings Che, the disenchanted revolutionary who narrates Evita, in describing the results of the former Argentinian First Lady's fundraising drive. But Che's lyrics also describe the success of the musical itself. After its 1978 London premier. Evita arrived on Broadway, where it swept the 1979-80 Tony Awards. Since then, road companies have opened in, among other places, Chicago, Los Angeles, Vienna, Madrid, Mexico City, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Reportedly, the yen continue to roll in as Evita finally begins its first Boston engagement...
...near a naval base on Musk Island, about 30 miles south of Stockholm, glimpsed a periscope flashing through the waves. The alert quickly went out that a foreign submarine was lurking in Swedish waters, and within hours the hunt was on. Throughout last week, dozens of ships and helicopters swept back and forth across Hars Bay, dropping depth charges to try to bring the mystery sub to the surface. "We don't intend to pat it on the back or just follow it out to sea," vowed Rear Admiral Christer Kirkegaard, leader of the hunt. "We want to find...
...emotionally complicated ones. The sensitive perspective conveyed in songs like "Just the Way You Are" became blurred with hedonism and pretentiousness in "Sleeping With The Television On" and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." But in his latest effort. Joel confirms his status as a songwriter swept up in his own whirlwind fame and alienated from the normality he used to celebrate and glorify. The Nylon Curtain so emphatically reveals Joel's emotional detachment that the album serves a worthy purpose. With this complete songwriting tumble, Joel can essentially he enjoyed for his previous work and officially forgotten...
David Todhunter, the Brown water polo team's 6-ft., 5-in. scoring machine, rarely smiles in the water. Instead, with Olympian disdain, he calmly crushed all opposition--including Harvard--leading the Bruins in scoring with nine goals as they swept their five games at Blodgett...
...ambitious, as coquettish, as headstrong as her childhood celluloid idol, Scarlett O'Hara. And when Governor John Y. Brown, 48, swept Phyllis George, 33, off her feet, he seemed as dashing and roguishly gallant as Rhett Butler. But now any similarity between Butler, that blockade-running profiteer, and Brown is frankly causing the Governor to give a damn. Over the past few years, the former owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently been withdrawing sacks of hundred dollar bills from his account at a bank in Miami, not far from his vacation home. His total haul: $1.3 million...