Word: band
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared on three major network programs: Showcase '68, the Today show and Johnny Carson. He was a smash at the Hollywood Bowl and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Last week the Craig Hundley Trio * set off on a tour of the Midwest with Singer Johnny Mathis and his band. As they say in show biz, Craig Hundley is on a hot roll...
...writes menus? Mainly the restaurateurs or their chefs, but sometimes the printing companies lend an inky hand. "We do the job," says, Jack Loftin of the Dallas printing firm of Menus Distinctive. "There's nothing to be ashamed about." Unashamed, a small band of professional writers hangs around the kitchen door. One freelancer, Barry Tarshis, who dubs himself the "Menu Surgeon," says: "A menu should relate logically to the restaurant. A whimsical menu for the hip crowd, for example, or a folksy menu for the family crowd. But if someone wants something really offbeat, I might even suggest...
...accuracy--at least in certain circumstances--makes the public opinion surveys an important political tool. Even as simple mirrors of public opinion they can have far-reaching side effects. For instance, no one knows how many voters last month were swayed by a tendency to jump aboard a Nixon band wagon. Leading pollsters, including Gallup, unequivocally reject the notion that there may be a so-called "band-wagon effect." They cite Hubert Humphrey's dramatic comeback as evidence for their view. Still others feel that the polls may actually have helped Humphrey by generating an "underdog" sympathy vote. Whichever...
...these mind-busting advances were made in isolation in the sense that they do not belong on any of the albums. "A Day in the Life" was so out of place on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles felt compelled to close the album theme just before the song came...
...gripping enough. McCartney's great period of love ballads seems over because he has not done much since the fervent days of "Things We Said Today" and "And I Love Her" and "Girl." Songs like "Blackbird" and "Mother Nature's Son" are done much better by the Incredible String Band and that is that...