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...young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next to him with brilliant talent for procrastination, has actually begun to play a harmonica and toss a frisbee simultaneously--the college student's Dylan imitation. And the red girl--my God, she begins to thump her drum as if moved by some invisible rhythm, her foot tapping, her head dipping, swaying, thrusting...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Sun and Fun at Harvard Beach | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...rain that turned the Harvard stadium field into a quagmire. We called it a fluke and we shook it off, but they beat us nevertheless--we didn't do the job. This year, Cornell, led by new coach Bob Blackman, the famous ogre from Dartmouth, will be looking to thump us once again. But this time we'll be ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobody Loves Me | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

Nice place, we thought. Big, kind of pretty, loud music, light-up dance floor (blinkety-blink, strobety-strobe), ten-cent beers, 25-cent drinks (OK, only on Wednesdays), and clean-looking people. Disco music--lotsa bass (thump-thump...

Author: By Diana R. Laing and Laura J. Levine, S | Title: DISCO | 2/18/1977 | See Source »

Surrounded by self-created disorder, he wanted certain things just so. He liked his documents neatly and precisely stacked. From behind the closed door of his bedroom, sometimes for an hour or more, would come a muffled thump, thump, thump. The first time Margulis heard it, he asked, "What the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Strains of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky filter through the windows of the three-story brick building on 152nd Street. Inside rehearsal pianos thump in the three studios, trumpet blasts pierce the music room, and sewing machines buzz in the basement costume department. A nine-year-old pastes sequins on a ballerina's tutu. Dancers study acting, music, dance notation. D.T.H. builds its own scenery, and company members help the technical crew put up the show. They even know how to make costumes. If a dancer's costume pulls or sags in the crotch, he can tell the seamstress that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Classical Ballet with Soul | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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