Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality of the video memoirs varies. Some have a home-movie amateurishness, with ill-lit camerawork, tinny musical interludes from the school band and interminable shots of students horsing around for the camera. Others strive for more professionalism, with rock songs on the sound track and TV news-style interviews. This year's video for Eastwood High School in Pemberville, Ohio, opens with an old woman rummaging through a trunk in her dusty attic. Inside she finds a forgotten videocassette, which she pops into a VCR. The tape, of course, turns out to be Eastwood High's 1986-87 video...
DEFEATED. Edwin Moses, 31, U.S. 400-meter hurdles runner, Olympic champion (1976, 1984) and world-record holder whose 122-race winning streak, beginning in 1977, was the longest of any event in track history; by Danny Harris, 21, of Iowa State University, three-time collegiate champion in the event; in Madrid...
...fast-track careers of Novelists Jay McInerney, 31, and Bret Easton Ellis, 23, have intriguing parallels. McInerney's 1984 best-selling fictional debut, Bright Lights, Big City, chronicled the downward spiral of an unnamed young writer who delves into New York City's nightclub netherworld with the help of his fast-talking best friend, Tad Allagash. Next year Ellis' Less than Zero caused a publishing sensation with its stark portrayal of sybaritic youth in suburban Los Angeles. Both writers' books are currently being made into major motion pictures. And both writers are slated to come out with new novels within...
...President Reagan rushes out. It is the seven-year presidential itch. The ebb of power is melancholy reality, the days of glory meticulously numbered. Air Force One, soon to be replaced by a grander, fancier model, sits in its hangar eager for a last run around the track. So hail and farewell, Mr. President, and good luck and fun in Europe. The fresh faces of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., cheer him off from the sweet sweep of the South Lawn. The creaky jet still has some spirit as it thunders up through the gray clouds...
...while the American wings of two of Harvard's largest departments were struggling to make new appointments in order to get back on track, the French wing of Harvard's Romance Langauges Department was suffering from a raid by a competitor on the West Coast...