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...first time, he says it was a "big adjustment period." Add to the transcontinental move a truncated freshman football season (two of six games were cancelled) and what seemed like "30 straight days of rain," and Woolway says he was "pretty unhappy." "I had never even used an umbrella before," the Angeleno laughs...
...heads the Frontier Booking International (FBI), an agency specializing in New Wave performers. Miles created the International Record Syndicate (IRS), an umbrella organization of seven young, aggressive independent labels which are distributed by A&M while retaining complete artistic control over their releases...
...gray suit, Lech Walesa proudly led his delegation into Room 203 of the Warsaw district provincial court. As hundreds of sympathizers jostled one another outside, the Baltic labor leader slid an eight-page document across the long table. It was the charter of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the new Gdansk-based umbrella organization representing 36 independent unions from all over Poland. Judge Zdzislaw Koscielniok declared he would examine the charter for two weeks and then rule on its legitimacy. As Walesa departed from the drab sandstone building, cheering workers hoisted him on their shoulders and carried him through the streets...
...Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...
...scene at the Olympic Village suggested nothing unusual, nothing untoward. Athletes lolled in the early morning sun and sipped tea at umbrella-topped tables. In the distance, hurdlers could be seen skimming over the practice field. National flags fluttered from competitors' windows, the bunting of innocent patriotism...