Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capable of discussing their music, its evolution and its objects with extraordinary candor and intelligence." That intelligence, as reflected in The Who's music and Cocks' story, has also made a fan of TIME's culture editor, though the conversion came relatively late. Concedes Duffy: "Back when The Who was being launched, I was in line at the Metropolitan, trying to get tickets for Birgit Nilsson...
...quite different." On one occasion, he had to retape a TV segment, and when he was asked for the second time why he was running, he gave a rambling, less coherent answer. During a break in the filming, he quipped: "If another problem develops, let's go back to the first tape and use subtitles...
...Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will Anwar Sadat's skillful Washington envoy Ashraf Ghorbal. Spies are back, and the Carter Administration will not be using the word love quite so often or in quite the same...
...McDonnell Douglas scurried to the Pentagon with the announcement of plans for a Marine Rapid Deployment Force. The current official vocabulary has to do with American bases abroad, overflight rights with friendly countries, aerial refueling capacity. The adrenaline is flowing, but there are some tough problems on the way back to first-class power. A red-faced White House is learning that a new airborne carrier may be needed for cruise missiles. The Administration is making embarrassed inquiries about a version of the B-1 bomber canceled...
...what can you say about foul shooting? Use your legs, follow through, get back spin, put them into the basket. The Crimson lost at least one game--the Ivy opener against the Quakers--strictly at the line, muffing numerous free throws in the closing minutes of that two point defeat...