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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday night: For a town "under seige" by protesters planning to occupy a nuclear plant in five hours, Seabrook looks pretty dull--very dull, in fact. A steady drizzle replaces the afternoon's thick mist falling on Seabrook police car number 23. Through the treetops, red airplane warning lights shine on the cranes that just into the eastern sky from the construction site. The cranes are still now, and the only visible activity is at Dunkin' Donuts across the street, where a scraggly crowd orders crullers and coffee...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Occupation That Got Away | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...sedated," but it's not just "blow up your schools," as Rock and Roll High School makes it seem. Their songs are hymns to pure energy, and their movie ought to be more tightly-paced, faster-rhythmed. Rock and Roll High School smothers the Ramones with a thick glue-snort of T.V.-style jokes and befuddles any attempt to understand their spirit...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: A Lot of Pounding | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

Brown jumped back into the thick of the Ivy race with an impressive 31-12 thrashing of Princeton. Slick Rick Villella chewed up 114 yards and registered two touchdowns as the Tigers truckled to a relentless Bruin attack. Quarterback Larry Carbone smoothly marshalled the Brown battalion, accumulating 206 yards of total offense...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Quarterbacks Need Not Apply to Yale | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...bones. There is a short, odd silence, followed by a series of low, menacing rumbles. That means the charges have done their work. Aftershocks have shaken loose more than a thousand tons of gold-bearing rock from the ceiling of the cavern. Smoke tumbles up the nearby escape shaft, thick with the acrid scent of ammonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: Gold Diggers of '79 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Later, on the terrace near a stone fountain he designed himself, Pavarotti presides boisterously over a table that rarely has fewer than 14 or 16 guests around it. Over plates of polenta (cornmeal porridge), sausage and pork in a thick gravy, washed down with Lambrusco, the talk moves from local politics to musical gossip: the burglary of Herbert von Karajan's Saint-Tropez villa, or the scheduling problems caused by the love affair of two internationally known singers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Privacy, Pavarotti Style | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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