Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country origins, and Joni Mitchell's life is chronicled in her song lyrics. But Elton John is completely different from his image," explains DeVoss, who during four days in London accompanied the pop star on a round of shopping, dinners and post-midnight gambling, where John never bet less than ?100. Cruising around the city in his Rolls-Royce, Elton would spot people connected with his career and stop to say hello while DeVoss garnered quotes. Among the friends they encountered: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Paul and Linda McCartney...
Presidential primary campaigns have long been something of a marathon poker game. How many chips does a candidate bet on a given state? Which elections does he pass because his cards look bad? But as the 1976 primary season approaches, the candidates are more uncertain and confused than ever. Last year's campaign-funding reforms vastly changed the rules of the game. The fat cats have been dealt out. The pot is now limited. Yet some time before the first primary is held next winter, the U.S. Supreme Court could break out an entirely new and unfamiliar deck...
This is not great Condon, but it is good Condon. The murdered dude was a whiz-bang insurance salesman, the best-dressed knight of the Million Dollar Round Table and a sure bet to pull down $ 150,000 a year. Naturally his wife wants him back. Using a computerized electronic prayer wheel that she whips up with her soldering iron, she petitions all gods ancient and modern, known or rumored, and becomes (to the surprise of the gods themselves) the first soul in recorded eternity to get a message through...
...have three generations of Guthries and Seegers on stage tonight." Seeger says in the introduction to one of the songs on this album, "and I bet there are lots of three generations of you out there." Silence Pause "Aren't there?" Applause A belated recognition. Seeger was summoning up the virtue of Family...
Bluegrass. The best bet this week may be the culmination of the bluegrass series at the church at Garden and Mason Sts., the one with the rooster on the weathervane. This is the Sunday afternoon where they really kick it out (at 2 p.m. running all day), with Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys. How Banks Fall (great name) and more. Three bucks...