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...album's anchor, "Until the Night," encompasses all the shortcomings of this latest Billy Joel effort. The cut begins with a lackadaisical vocal set to a Phil Spector beat that suits Johnny Mathis more than Billy Joel. Though the song builds to a contrasting bridge and powerful crescendo, Joel is lost in the music, overshadowed by the mystery vocalist who solos the first two verses and dominates the choruses. The album lists no vocal credit. The listener leaves the song wondering where Billy Joel is hidden...
...adaptation of Alice's adventures. Nearly every song except those such as the "Lobster Quadrille," which Carroll put in the book himself, is so burdened with "heavy" concepts and sappy metaphors (i.e. "Meetings are like strawberries, small and good to eat...") that they drag the show down like an anchor...
...wall will be the latest in fence technology: a 6-in. concrete base surmounted by 4 ft. of galvanized steel grating and 6 ft. of tightly woven chain links. Said George Norris, Houston manager for Anchor Post Products, Inc., which will build the fence for $2,015,000: "It's the heaviest construction I've ever seen on a fence." Because the grating is razor sharp, Norris added, anyone climbing the fence barefoot would "leave his toe permanently embedded...
...Crimson dropped anchor in a teeming school of off-shore mackerel in the afternoon. "It was incredible," says Zewinski. "We were pulling in six mackerel at a time just as fast as we could drop the lines in." Zewinski and company used deep sea rods, equipped with phosphorescent lures attached to the six hooks on each line...
...French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took a long shot: Roger Gicquel, a relatively obscure former airline steward, failed actor and radio-station executive who had never been in front of a TV camera...