Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People have said everything about Harvard's upset win over Boston College last Monday night, and it still isn't enough. Tom Aronson described the game as "classic", and with the many individuals that skated their way into the limelight that night, it was a fitting epithet...
Currier House Music Society--The Currier House Opera, directed by Laura Johnson, performs Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio," first produced in 1782. With principal singers Diana Praino, Ann Jeffers, Tom Olsen, and Paul John. Admission $3.00, $2.00 with student I.D. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard...
...bridges linking old Washington and the new Administration; they held one of the first post-Inauguration dinner parties for the Carter crew. Another bridge builder is Liz Stevens, wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...
...Satirist Tom Wolfe sees a connection between show business kissing and the new campaign law. The new $1,000 limitation on contributions means, says Wolfe, that "more than ever, people in show business have a tremendous role in campaigns. Through concerts and other entertainments they can deliver a million dollars in a single evening, and in show business, this kissing has become even more rampant than it ever was. Jimmy Carter has to kiss at least 3,000 rock stars-male and female-in the next four years to pay up his debt...
...many critics, Roots was an Uncle Tom's Cabin for television. The short series included a number of unusually graphic scenes: the tribal rite of circumcision, the torturous voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little...