Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When the University of Texas Longhorns meet the University of Miami Hurricanes in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, the football teams will have to share billing with a third powerhouse: Mobil Corp. The oil company's name will be emblazoned on stadium signs and embedded in the AstroTurf at the 50-yd. line. In fact, the extravaganza has been officially rechristened the Mobil Cotton Bowl. Mobil earned title rights to the game for seven years by paying millions of dollars to the organizers, the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association...
...writer George J. Church's second greatest talent is penning musical parodies. Colleagues celebrating milestones in their lives are frequently blessed with a Church ditty, sung by the renowned librettist himself to one of a long list of pop tunes (e.g., I Left My Heart in San Francisco). His third greatest talent, say some, is his unique taste in clothes, which runs to purple ties and gold blazers. But the first thing we all know about George is that he is one of the most prolific and lucid writers ever to grace our pages...
...limited amnesty. In an interview in the daily Die Welt, former Chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Those who abused their countrymen and enriched themselves must go before the courts . . . ((but)) let the others lie in peace." And while East Germany committed no horrors on the scale of the Third Reich, some Germans fear a replay of the turmoil associated with the purges of postwar de- Nazification...
...says, noting that great bookstores , continue to proliferate in Europe. Rather than regarding Americans as cultural imperialists, she observes wryly, "many Europeans have an almost colonialist attitude toward us. We provide them with wonderful distractions, the feeling of diversion. Perhaps Europeans will eventually view us as a wonderfully advanced Third World country with a lot of rhythm -- a kind of pleasure country, so cheap with the dollar down and all that singing and dancing...
After more than a decade of anticipation, Francis Ford Coppola's third installment of the Godfather film saga opens on Christmas Day. The hiatus between episodes was longer than the duration of both World Wars. But other megaprojects are marinating out there at their own dilatory pace. Examples...