Word: threw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...altar, with Alabama-born Laurie Buffet, who is the sister of his friend country singer Jimmy Buffet. McGuane's reputation bottomed out in 1978 when he received a critical licking for Panama, a caustically humorous novel that limned the dark side of fame. The same year, actress Elizabeth Ashley threw fat on the media fire by sparing few details of her romance with McGuane in her autobiography, which described him as a "psychedelic cowboy" and "aging juvenile delinquent." Meanwhile, the deaths of both his parents and his sister took a heavy toll. "I come from a family that...
...which 4,500 people also rallied noisily outside the cathedral, was largely the work of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). The group claims to have 40 chapters in the U.S. as well as others in Paris, Berlin and London. Another AIDS protest group this month threw red paint on four Catholic churches in Los Angeles and left posters of Archbishop Roger Mahony labeled MURDERER. In San Francisco gay activists smeared handprints in paint and hung posters depicting sex acts in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption and the archdiocese chancery...
...including Battat and former Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90, criticized the council for the short length of time it spent discussing such a large expenditure. The council spends more than four hours alloting its $40,000 grants budget, but "we spent 10 minutes discussing the [concert] issue, and we threw out $35,000," Battat said...
...wholesale dissolution of the party leadership left some members with an uneasy sense that no one was in charge. But Prime Minister Hans Modrow seemed in command as he appealed on national television for calm, and the party hastily threw together a temporary 25-member working group to fill the leadership void. On Thursday the first talks between the Communist Party and the opposition yielded agreements to recommend parliamentary elections for May 6 and to rewrite the constitution. In addition, the foundering party advanced an emergency congress by a week to try to restore order and salvage shreds of credibility...
...perhaps fitting that the biggest event of the decade was the ostentatious party Harvard threw for itself on the occasion of its 350th birthday in 1986. Prince Charles and luminaries of all stripes were on hand for the week-long festivities in September, as were angry protesters, who disrupted a black-tie dinner for big donors to call attention to Harvard's investments in South Africa...