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Word: vic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected an appeal for funds. Sir. Charles Forte (created Lord Forte two months ago), of the Trusthouse Forte hotel chain, launched a fund drive to reform and modernize D'Oyly Carte, but it will be several months before anyone knows whether the necessary ?1 million can be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Final Curtain for D'Oyly Carte | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...favor of more important pursuits like winning the space race or building the New Society. Of course, Muscle Man Charles Atlas beckoned to boys from ads in comic books (Don't let bullies kick sand in your face, weakling) and a few grownups even lifted weights at Vic Tanny's. By the early '70s, however, a sweeping change was literally afoot. At a cocktail party, the old-fashioned kind with fat-laced canapés and spirituous liquors, some gaunt, counterculture Ph.D. brandished his glass of club soda and announced: "The body is the temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...They (the Tigers) were very weak up the middle," Callinan said. "Their linebackers went down very easily. The defensive backs had to make the tackles." A quick glance at the stats shows Princeton strong safety Vic Ruterbush leading his team with ten unassisted tackles. That's not something that defensive coaches like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Callinan's Biggest Day | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...remains concentrated in the nation's ghettos, officials are seeing evidence of a new breed of "upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most of their peers are content...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...With a New Clientele, Same Old Worries | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...Vic Franzese is the owner of the largest hotel in the Watkins Glen area, the Glen Motor Inn. He is also the Chairman of the Industrial Development Agency, which technically still owns the circuit and hopes to regain control...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: From The Glen to The Palace | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

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