Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People of the Year I nominate the Vietnamese boat people, the untouchables of the South China Sea, for their determination, defiance and courage...
...speaks as straight ("If someone brought me Kiss today on a silver platter, I still wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset Strip billboards, which are for the music indus try what heraldry was to Camelot. He also brainstorms with the talent...
...Antique Shop. Next to the police station (one chief, two patrol officers) on the west side of the street is Lake Enterprise, so low in this drought year that the tangled roots of the cypress trees are visible above the water line. One lone fisherman pilots his boat across the darkening surface. "It's best to keep on driving," a young Wilmot woman advises cheerfully, suggesting that there is nothing much in Wilmot to detain a passing stranger. But that has not proved true in the case of Dr. Thieu...
...would be nice if the man took all of this thoughtful criticism to heart. But I am not particularly sanguine. Looking at the matter realistically, taking a modest view of the impression undergraduate concerns can (and should) make on university policies and plans in general, we miss the boat if we categorically reject Brustein and his proposals. It would now be best to put aside antagonisms and welcome Brustein and the exciting possibilities he has suddenly opened up. Whitney Davis...
Born in Munich, the son of a wealthy art dealer, "Putzy," as he was known, graduated with the Harvard Class of 1909. During his years here, Hanfstaengl held down a seat in the varsity eight boat, led cheers at football games and joined Hasty Pudding...