Word: trios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trio-made up of Granberg, a retired New York state investigator; Salvatore Rignola, a New York City fire marshal; and Julian Farriel, a house painter-were buffeted by bruising ocean tides. Rignola and Farriel would later tell the authorities that Granberg, 6 ft. 4 in. and 275 lbs., offered to change places with Rignola, who was perched precariously in the middle. As Granberg stood up, his friends said, his foot slipped on the wet seat, and he vanished overboard...
...danger of formal education eclipsing real life was personified for me during my first year back by a trio of graduate students whom I shall refer to as the Three Blind Mice...
...most entertaining of the trio, I Shouldn 't Be Telling You This, is former New York Times Reporter Mary Breasted's fondly cynical story of a young Radcliffe graduate named Sarah Makepeace. She moves from freelancing for the Evil Eye, a leftist Greenwich Village weekly that resembles the Village Voice (where Breasted once labored), to a coveted staff job on the Newspaper, a dignified daily that is unmistakably the New York Times. Sarah's boss is City Editor Ron Millstein, an endearingly manic liar who does not resemble Times Editors Arthur Gelb and A.M. Rosenthal. After spending...
...more direct, slightly raw sound of Synchronicity, with its emphasis on a tight trio playing and disaffection from synthesizer and sax, pleases Summers. The fact is that the Police, like the Who, draw their dynamism directly from intramural tension. It may only be, as Copeland describes it, like "kids at the dinner table arguing over who's got more Rice Krispies." But the snap, crackle and pop of the Police are the sounds of rock 'n' roll, summer 1983 and on into the next months. And very well...
...danger of formal education eclipsing real life was personified for me during my first year back by a trio of graduate students whom I shall refer to as the Three Blind Mice...