Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song from the Miller beer commercial, If You've Got the Time, has been adapted as a single by Red Steagall. Sammi Smith has recorded the Bell System's Call Me. Inspired by the Mazda car commercial, the Hummers have done Old Betsy Goes Boing, Boing...
Barnard suggests the reason for the firemen's rapid heart rates: the fire-alarm bell. Among firemen monitored for 24 hours, most of the younger men, with supposedly healthy hearts, showed great excitement and doubled heart rates when the alarm sounded. But oldtimers were not immune to the excitement syndrome either. At least 20% overreacted to the bell, their bodies releasing hormones that might contribute to heart disease. Barnard's recommendation: a fitness program for all fire fighters...
Equally pointless is Miloš Forman's cutting between decathlon competitors and various musical activities that he found in and around the Games, from Bavarian bell ringing to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth. The decathlon is something more than the hot pursuit of exhaustion, and so, perhaps, is bell ringing, if that is where one's heart lies. As for John Schlesinger's back-and-forthing between a losing British marathon competitor and the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists, it is a tasteless last-minute paste...
...lingo. Last year when Sha-na-na came to Boston, most of the crowd was dressed for occasion, resplendent in white sox, sweat shirts, saddle shoes, and Brylcreem. This year the leftovers of that crowd walked like ghosts among a younger crowd in halter tops, platform shoes, and wide bell-bottoms. Nostalgia didn't pack the concert, but neither did the music. It was the being there...
...time." Born in Britain 63 years ago, Geneen came to the U.S. at the age of one. A wizard with figures, Geneen began his career as a New York Stock Exchange page and rose from accountant to executive positions in such companies as Bell & Howell, Jones & Laughlin and Raytheon...