Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple in the balcony sat on edge. Benny was not young. His hand did not look strong when it gave Bunch the tempo, and he took a few deep breaths before he put the clarinet to his lips. But he followed the beat in and when he started to blow, forty years made no difference. Goodman played strong and jubilant, and moved like the puppet of some demon beat he swallowed in the '20s. The audience clapped and stomped in rhythm. The couple in the balcony finally lost their anxieties and joined...
...Hemingway man beneath the macho mask-harsh but affectionate, exacting but forgiving, an aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...
...symbolic one, to make, if need be, an important symbolic gesture of protest by speaking out or resigning. If the Carter administration does less than he feels necessary to support human rights abroad and black nationalist rule in southern Africa, Young will hopefully still have the integrity to blow the whistle...
Weiger also enlivened Midas' sleepy travel-trailer business, which the company acquired in 1965. The fuel crisis that followed the 1973 Arab oil embargo dealt recreational-vehicle sales a heavy blow, but Weiger took advantage of the downturn to mass-purchase chassis and their components. When the shortage passed, Weiger opened a 130,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing and assembly operation in Elkhart, Ind. He promoted the star of Midas' 30-model trailer, camper and motor-home lineup: the Midas mini-motor home, known as a Chopped Van. Midas buys the cab and chassis of a GM, Ford...
...logical extreme. Raise over $30 million. Build a model of a Polaroid camera out of concrete and glass. Build it a hundred feet high. Pack it with elaborate devices and arcane knowledge and wisemen. Drop it on the campus of a large, prestigious university. If the smaller blow-up was funny, this must be hilarious. It would be Harvard's Science Center...