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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This amazing twist to Bausano's successful, but up to that point normal wrestling career proved providential a the Russian drilled Bausano in the techniques which now form the core of his repertoire...

Author: By Danny Kahn, | Title: The Top of Their Class | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...prep school, the battles of the '60's seem far away. Sarah is brought up among other prosperous Blacks and whites, and she naturally assumes many of their values. When her older brother brings home a Jewish classmate, the scene resembles "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" with a twist. The Black parents resent the white woman, but Sarah's brother Mathew retorts by pointing out that they should have expected an interracial affair. The problem is that these privileged Philadelphia Negroes would like their children to marry other nice colored people, a prospect Sarah and Mathew find excruciatingly dull...

Author: By Natine Pinede, | Title: Taking Sides | 3/13/1985 | See Source »

...Suddenly we are oack in that interminable fifth grade history class, bothered by that hotshot who always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets in. The dancers wriggle and twist, twirling their legs around their chairs in every possible expression of restlessness. The final deep sleep is roused only by a relentless, and all too familiar, bell...

Author: By Anne Tobies, | Title: Sandbox Dancers | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

...could be a scene out of "Fame": a box in the corner cranks out the music, a slight figure in black yet is out the beat, and 23 bodies jump, spin, and twist across the room...

Author: By P.m. NATASHA Chang, | Title: Citystep Teaches Cambridge's Kids to Dance | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

...Another twist in the Mt. Auburn case was the discovery of three tenants who have been living above the commercial storefronts in these buildings since 1979, according to local attorney Robert J. LaTremouille...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Harvard-Owned Buildings Face Several Hurdles to Demolition | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

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