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Word: tubas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming to be a biologist walked into Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...women's basketball team wraps up a share of the Ivy title with a 71-60 scorching of Brown. Sarah Duncan throws in 17 points, grabs 13 rebounds, dishes out five assists, blocks three shots and makes two steals. She also plays tuba in the band at halftime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...couple's home for three months before giving birth last July. But in April, Navajo officials, who refer to the child as Baby K., convinced a California judge that any decision about custody should rest with the tribal courts. At a hearing last week, a tribal judge in Tuba City returned Allyssa temporarily to the Pittses, but a final decision is still pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Adoption Battle over Baby K. | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...series of interior-decorating sight gags tries to reason out an event--possibly a crime--they saw in the street earlier that day. Standing in their cluttered set, they argue back and forth; if anyone fails to consider this unusual, Goldfarb's senile mother (Betsy Menes) intermittently plays the tuba to ensure a properly surrealist feel...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...Abbott and Costello movies, a cross between bacchanals and pajama parties. Where is the dignity in a presidential election campaign? Where are the issues of substance? Let us consider the matter with deep seriousness as the red, white and blue balloons shower down on our funny hats and a tuba ooms in our ears. More noise, please. (Is this your baby, madam? Extraordinary. Of course, I'll kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A national campaign is better than the best circus. | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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