Sykes joined Tygers of Pan Tang in 1980, and played guitar on the albums Spellbound ( 1981 ) and Crazy Nights ( 1982 ), as well as participating on two tracks for their 1983 release, The Cage.

McGee's big break came when he was acquired by the St. Louis Cardinals from the Yankees ' farm system on October 21, 1981 in a trade for pitcher Bob Sykes.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

In March 1981, Dan Okrent wrote an essay about the Rotisserie League for Inside Sports called " The Year George Foster Wasn't Worth $ 36.

* For Martin Greenberg's Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers ( Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 ) she wrote " The Expanding Mind ," a memoir of her youth and the impact of science fiction on the mind of a young girl.

While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

In 1981, the humorous columnist Art Buchwald wrote a piece entitled, " Secular Humanists: Threat or Menace?

Sondheim wrote a book of annotations of his lyrics titled Finishing the Hat ( 2010 ), a collection of his lyrics " from productions dating 1954 – 1981.

A Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ) employee wrote that PARC used extensive usability testing in creating the Xerox Star, introduced in 1981.

In 1981, Vangelis wrote the score for the film Chariots of Fire, set at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Arm first used the term in 1981, when he wrote a letter under his given name Mark McLaughlin to the Seattle zine Desperate Times, criticizing his band Mr. Epp and the Calculations as " Pure grunge!

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

In 1981 Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first book in the Fighting Fantasy series, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books " as quickly as possible ", the pair wrote subsequent books separately.

Marjorie Kendig ( 1892 – 1981 ), probably Korzybski's closest co-worker, director of the Institute after his death, and editor of his posthumously published Collected Writings: 1920-1950, wrote in 1968: I would guess that I have known about 30 individuals who have in some degree adequately, by my standards, mastered this highly general, very simple, very difficult system of orientation and method of evaluating — reversing as it must all our cultural conditioning, neurological canalization, etc ....

His cook and caretaker was a young artist's model named Twinka Thiebaud who later wrote a 1981 book of his evening chats.

Hoyle wrote two more books in the series: Blake's 7: Project Avalon ( 1979, novelising the episodes Seek – Locate – Destroy, Duel, Project Avalon, Deliverance and Orac ) and Blake's 7: Scorpio Attack ( 1981, novelising the episodes Rescue, Traitor and Stardrive ).

He was trustee of the National Gallery of Australia from 1976 to 1981, and wrote a book on Australian artist Ian Fairweather.

In 2010, Fortissimo Records re-released Brancas 1981 album The Ascension as a special edition on 180 grams vinyl and Branca wrote a piece The Ascension: The Sequel, which was released in the same year on the label Systems Neutralizers.

In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics.

David Chaum wrote an article in 1981 that described many of the features present in modern pseudonymous remailers.

In 1981 she wrote a book with Chris Mullin entitled How to Select or Reselect Your MP.

As early as 1981, LucasFilms has issued legal notices to fans who wrote sexually-explicit stories ).

While in England in 1981, Norman wrote " A Woman of God " based on Proverbs 31.

Pringle contributed in the past thirty years many key results to accretion disc theory, and wrote the classic 1981 review that for many years was the main source of information about accretion discs, and is still very useful today.

Bixby directed one episode of the series, " Bring Me the Head of the Hulk " in 1980 ( original airdate: January 9, 1981 ).

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

The Evil Dead ( sometimes shortened to just Evil Dead, and originally titled Book of the Dead ) is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker.

Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter.

Due to Loren ’ s unavailability, the project was shelved and resurrected twenty-five years later as Lovers and Liars ( 1981 ), a comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini.

He directed his final film, Rich and Famous ( 1981 ) with Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen, at the age of eighty-two.

The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

Lewis returned to the screen in 1981 with Hardly Working, a film he both directed and starred in.

* 1981: Signé Furax, directed by Marc Simenon

The film version of Blume ’ s 1981 novel Tiger Eyes, directed by the author's son Lawrence Blume, stars Willa Holland as Davey and Amy Jo Johnson as Gwen Wexler.

In 1981, Nancy directed a major renovation of several White House rooms, including all of the second and third floors and rooms adjacent to the Oval Office, including the press briefing room.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

* Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ) ( book by George Furth ; directed by Hal Prince )

* Thief ( film ), a 1981 crime film directed by Michael Mann

Reds is a 1981 American epic film that was co-written, produced, directed by and starred Warren Beatty.

Paul Raymond's Erotica ( 1981 ) stars Brigitte Lahaie and Diana Cochran and was directed by Brian Smedley-Aston.

Raiders of the Lost Ark ( later marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford.

A Parliamentary Commission, directed by Tina Anselmi ( of the Christian Democratic party ), found no evidence of crimes, but in 1981 the Italian parliament passed a law banning secret associations in Italy.

In 1981, John Barton followed the 1957 Old Vic model and directed a heavily edited version of the play as a double bill with The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, starring Patrick Stewart as Titus, Sheila Hancock as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Leonie Mellinger as Lavinia.

From the fall of 1977 through January 1981, Meese served as professor of law at USD, where he also directed the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management.

She later appeared in an " Off Broadway " production of Durang's comedy Beyond Therapy in 1981, which was directed by the up-and-coming director Jerry Zaks.

Austin Pendleton directed a production that ran at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale for three weeks and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. for six weeks before opening on Broadway, after eight previews, on May 7, 1981 at the Martin Beck Theatre.