Word: breads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boulez was not able to charm the older subscribers or assert himself as an exciting interpreter of the bread-and-butter repertory. The Philharmonic will be looking to Mehta to repair those weak spots. Only 26 when he took over the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962, he still carries the nickname "Zubi Baby," but no one denies his musical credentials or his sex appeal. He does not dance on the podium like Leonard Bernstein, another predecessor in New York, but he does have an elegant presence...
...plain manner of his last and greatest period. Ezra raised money to support T.S. Eliot and, in the most celebrated editing feat of the century, transformed The Waste Land from a fascinating mess into a masterpiece. James Joyce admitted that without Pound's wheeling and dealing to put bread on his table, he could never have written Ulysses...
...made the issues in this campaign the right issues, the bread and butter issues--jobs, put American back to work," Jackson said...
...Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution. The distress slaughter...
...final London performances in 1969, Judy Garland faltered so badly that some members of the audience pelted her with bread rolls. Last week, when Singer Lorna Luft, 23, Judy's daughter and Actress Liza Minnelli's half sister, came to play the London Palladium, it was the critics who did the bombarding. The London Times found her "a not particularly talented performer who tries hard enough but against impossible odds." What she lacks, said the Guardian, "is that bruised-by-life quality you find in most top female vocalists" -a failing that the British critics seemed anxious...