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Women's varsity swimmer and backstroke specialist Elaine Sang '87 sits behind the starting blocks ten minutes before she is scheduled to swim. "If I do poorly, I don't think it's because I was there really early. But if I don't get behind the blocks early, I can then blame my performance...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Psyching Up With Superstition | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...demonstrators, who were joined by dozens of bystanders, sang protest songs which included the lyrics, "If Derek Bok gets in our way we're gonna roll right over...

Author: By Robert F. Cunna jr., | Title: Protesters Kick Off Divestiture Rallies | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...ancient days, before the advent of the Sorth of Bragadox, when Fragilis sang and Saxaquine of the Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Earthbound So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...their secular counterparts, these performers represent one of the most interesting, fastest-growing trends in the music world: Christian contemporary music, or evangelical pop. Approximately 15 million contemporary Christian albums were sold last year, and sales exceeded $75 million. "Urban cowboy was the theme of the '70s, and they sang about bars," says Dan Harrell, a partner in the Nashville firm that manages Grant. "Contemporary Christian is the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Lyrics for the Devil's Music | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...keep the family together with waitress jobs. Both Madonna and Lauper floundered for a time in parochial schools. Lauper eventually dropped out and stumbled around, while Madonna made a beeline for the big time. Lauper did not even know where it was. She walked racehorses; she sang in bar bands and about burned out her vocal cords before getting help from a voice coach. She felt, as she says, "so crumbled." She was vocalist for a band called Blue Angel. They made one album that, as she says, "went lead," and soon Lauper was back, solo, singing in a local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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