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...BOOM! Seagulls dive over a beach and land neatly on paper. For Renaissance Man Donald Everett Axinn squats against a dune scribbling--islands, berries, turtles, plural nouns. He glues the words together with broad images like love, wind, or sea, making poems from them...
Saturday morning the Crimson traveled cross-town to a Northeastern sponsored tourney and--boom, boom, boom Saturday afternoon it made its way back to Cambridge having collected three second defeats. The losses to Penn Eastern Nazareth College and Brown evened Harvard's season scored...
Soprano Leona Mitchell's career goes boom...
...Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which has yet to open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard...
...nation's pipeline-building boom began taking shape some seven years ago, when wintertime gas shortages were commonplace and crude-oil prices had skyrocketed. With the start of phased natural gas deregulation under the Carter Administration in 1978 and the subsequent creeping rise in price, the industry experienced a boom in exploration and drilling activity. Investment in large-scale pipeline development naturally followed close behind...