Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth's Kevin Johnson, who scored the winning goal in Watson Rink two weeks ago, picked up the winner last night as well as a hat trick in the second period explosion. He was joined by Tom Fleming, who also had a hat trick in the second...
THERE may be only one winner, but there will be no losers," explains the wily M.C. in Bicentennial Follies. "We all compete, and one of us rises to the top." In this musical assault on the much-maligned American ethic, several different dramatic modes and perspectives do in fact compete; unfortunately, when parody dips into absurdism and crescendoes finally into tragedy, it's mainly confusion which comes out on top. As a result, although there's more than one winner in this baffling revue cum drama--including a strong cast and some genuinely moving numbers--the show as a whole...
...Bicentennial Follies tries very hard to be a tragedy. When the pageant is over, and the fradulent victor is announced, we are asked to pity first the loser (for there most certainly are losers, the M.C.'s rationalizations notwithstanding) and then the winner, who must pay the price of her triumph by accepting the vacuous premises of American life...
...hasn't got the symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned...
Unclear as yet was whether winner Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia governor who finished with 30 per cent of the vote, can maintain his delegate lead in upcoming primary contests against the full field of Democratic aspirants--including conservatives George Wallace and Sen. Henry Jackson (D.-Wash...