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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potato. Something like a potato. A '50s word for potato. Nobody uses it today except once, a while ago, some writers on Saturday Night Live wrote a jingle about Spud Beer, brewed from Idaho potatoes. Devo (Are We Not Men?) likes spuds, (they play a unique brand of "spud rock"), and so, obviously, does a new and soon-to-be-famous group that is coming to Boston soon. Their name: Spud City. I guess they know what spuds are. Watch them bake at Who's on First tomorrow night, a club without a phone number or any publicized address. Getting...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...soon began to send them short stories. At an age when many fellow students were struggling to express themselves, Asimov, who entered Columbia University's Seth Low Junior College at age 15, helped pay for his college and graduate school with fiction that sold for a penny a word. At a time when many young men were looking for their first postcollege jobs, Asimov published what became one of the most anthologized sci-fi stories in history, Nightfall, a speculation about how man would view the stars if they appeared only once every thousand years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Then maybe they go out and tell others. Maybe the word is spreading quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...book has apparently undergone some renovation, but purists of the Broadway class of '28 are the only ones who are likely to be troubled by that. If the word escapist were forgotten, Whoopee! would redefine it. The show is transparently mindless and totally exhilarating fun. Director Frank Corsaro has wisely pitched the tone of the entire evening between silent-movie comedy and balmy operantics. It is never camped. Like gentle satire, it is half in love with what it kids, but time−not the cast−does the kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: That's My Baby | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...blowout. That's the only word for the Harvard men's squash team's 8-1 thrashing of an allegedly-talented Yale nine Saturday at Hemenway Gym, as the Crimson ended its dual match season at 8- 2 with its most convincing win of the year...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Havens Leads Crimson to 8-1 Victory | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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