Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Croce and Buddy Holly, but it was a hand-gun that almost finished off Chicago. Earlier this year guitarist Terry Kath, one of the most creative members of the group, was playing with a gun that not-so-playfully went off and killed him. Beset at the time by various artistic and contractual problems, the members of Chicago considered bagging the whole thing and ending their joint musical career...
...meantime, administrators and House masters have grown quite fond of the student-faculty committees, especially CHUL. CHUL has become a sort of clearinghouse for various gripes, grievances and administrative problems. Virtually everyone who influences the administration of non-academic policies is present at CHUL meetings, or is supposed...
...book explains the various kinds of pension funds (corporate funds, collectively-bargained funds, public employee funds, funds for the self-employed), the legal issues over their control and use, and the pension investment strategies that the bankers and brokers have used. The main strength of the book is its detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North...
...David Del Tredici, 41, who has been in thrall to the book's "effortless whimsy" ever since, at age eleven, he sang the role of the White Rabbit in a school musical based on Alice. He has spent the past decade composing a series of works based on various Alice adventures. When several new orchestral works were commissioned for the U.S. Bicentennial, Del Tredici was ready-with the imaginary Alice, not Betsy Ross, as his muse. His creation, Final Alice, billed by the composer as both a "grand concerto for voice and orchestra" and an "opera written in concert...
Zimmer did not approve of Lee's thoughts and comments about him, especially after a photograph of Zimmer which appeared in Sports Illustrated was captioned, "Being called a gerbil is O.K. if you win." Lee was accused of smoking marijuana on the team plane by various members of the press. He refused to "dress up" when the team appeared publicly, and he did a lot of strange things. Flaky things...