Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent over 1968; but they have nonetheless managed to scrape up a few items to sell to you now. Among the bargains: a Denny McLain Electric Baseball Game, 20 per cent off: Christmas records, $1.98 or 5 for $9; used paperbacks, 50 per cent off (James Bond in Thunderball for 30 cents); a poster of Paul Newman in a T-shirt for a dollar or Steve McQueen in a sport coat for 50 cents; suits and sport coats (without Steve McQueen), $12-20 off: a Greek electric typewriter, down $25 to $100; Gant shirts, 40 per cent off. (A. Cabaly...
...Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond," the strongest song Taj has recorded, begins with two quiet vocal stanzas. It discards the conventional big-band blues structure which starts solidly and builds gradually to a big brassy climax and cuts rapidly out-like "Corinna," the finest song on The Natch'l Blues. Taj interrupts the words of "You're Gonna Need" after only two stanzas for purely melodic development on his harmonica. That's early to cut off your verse-development and go into formal elaboration. Taj on harmonica builds to a climax rhythmically and melodically-but not in volume-then...
...large portion of that silent majority which is to be found in any nation, that silent majority which bears its full share and sometimes more in the great exertions of society in war and rapid social change, that silent majority which generated instinctively those symbols and slogans which bond society together...
...Telephones don't seem to work very well. Public transportation grows ramshackle. The quality of schools declines?in part because inflation prompts Middle Americans to vote against school-bond issues, against one of their own deepest values...