Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing by one, Harvard packed into the Dartmouth zone in a last-minute effort to send the game into overtime--but Gates managed a breakaway goal to insure Dartmouth's victory with 30 seconds left...
...graceful moves on the football field leave the opposition flat-footed. Now Chicago Bear Willie Gault has pirouetted from the end zone to the ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before...
Zona Rosa, the title of the second and featured play, refers to San Salvador's "Pink Zone," an enclave of cafes and boutiques. Ansara dramatizes the chance meeting of three schoolmates at one of these cafes. Bobby, Yolanda, and Rey are the only surviving members of the Class of '79 at a city prep school. Not a bad premise, but so many secrets and contradictions are breathlessly revealed that the audience can only turn numb...
...pink uniform and went to work at Dunkin' Donuts. When she exited, King turned to the typewriter which was perched on a child's desk. As an adolescent, he had read Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and other works that were adapted for The Twilight Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil of hypocrisy, what people hide behind. I understood that I could write about my own milieu and combine it with...
...create people that you want to live, then you put them into the cooker." Carrie, the paranormal adolescent, was succeeded by the vampires of 'Salem's Lot (1975), the haunted hotel of The Shining (1977), the deadly superflu of The Stand (1978). The clairvoyant young man of The Dead Zone (1979) placed King on the best-seller list for more than six months, replaced by Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), a nonfiction investigation of horror called Danse Macabre (1981), and a collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare time he turned out Christine and Pet Sematary (both...