Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Debi Field was estatic over the win. "They were a good team, but we beat them," she smiled. "Everything just came together--it all jelled...
...hours, not six or eight - was quintessential Hearst journalism). Penicillin would save her, but the Army held the existing supply of the wonder drug. Paul phoned the Surgeon General, talked him into releasing the antibiotic, and had it rushed to the hospital in a Journal-American radio car. He beat death by three hours, and the Times by a good deal more...
...SEVENTIES have been rough on the great rock bands of the sixties. The Stones stopped rolling, falling in to a stultifying disco beat; the Grateful Dead waxed and waned depending on the quality of their high; the Jefferson Airplane took off for the stars, finding commercial success but artistic failure. The Beatles, of course, never made it into this decade, and individually they've only embarrassed themselves and us. Here in 1978, the old jokes about aging rockers just don't seem funny anymore...
...standard-bearer, it's clear that the other members are now full partners. John Entwistle, the bass player, wrote a full third of the album's nine songs, and they're every bit as good as Townshend's. "905," a song about a depersonalized future, has a cold, catchy beat recognizably not Townshend's but definitely the Who's. Daltrey has once again taken control of his voice and uses it with as much energy as in the past, and more dramatic flair, controlling the frenzy and leaving the primal screams for a few climactic moments...
...APPARENT new unity of the band makes the recent death of drummer Keith Moon that much more tragic. Moon was always best known as the scourge of hotel managers across the world, but he was also one of the few rock drummers with a distinctive style--a feverish, restless beat that must have reflected his self-consuming way of life...