Word: ushered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lowell House Junior Usher House Committee...
...American mass culture is a true index of the national spirit, then the 1980s may be more boring than the 1970s. Or so one might conclude after surveying the network television schedules that will usher in the next decade. The new series of the 1979-80 season are a mostly flavorless assortment of retreads, spin-offs and ripoffs; there are no innovative programs and few fresh faces in sight. Though the past few years were not much better, they did at least offer such novel phenomena as Soap, Lifeline, Suzanne Somers and Robin Williams. The 1979-80 network lineup...
...Power may in fact be the best satisfaction. Says Joe Stein: "I've learned something about what it is like to be a medical specialist. When you make a decision, everybody listens." He pauses and notes, "Of course, by that time, they'd listen to an usher...
...Allen while writing a profile of him for Esquire in 1977. Rich's own show business career began at age 13, when, as an aspiring actor in Washington, D.C., "I hung around the National Theater so much that the manager took pity on me and made me an usher so I could see the shows for free." Watching plays over and over as they were pruned, polished and otherwise primed for a Broadway run is, Rich believes, a great education for a critic: "I couldn't help learning what does and does not work well on stage...
...guerrillas of the Patriotic Front, nothing was more important than disrupting elections in Rhodesia that will usher in Prime Minister Ian Smith's version of black majority rule. For Smith and his three black colleagues in the interim government of the breakaway British colony, nothing was more essential than preventing the guerrillas from carrying out their plans. On the eve of balloting by the country's blacks, a heavily armed Rhodesian raiding party last week struck deeply into Zambia, which provides a headquarters and staging bases for 16,000 irregulars of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People...