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...cuts, perhaps for the benefit of the air waves. "I Got The News" uses graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether or not this band will in fact "die behind the wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something Old, Something New | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

Arizona State managed a run off Lewis in the third on a two-out single by Mike Henderson, Bump Wills's replacement at short, who slyly worked himself into a pickle between first and second, allowing Rick Peters to score. The game settled into a defensive classic, and then came Steve King...

Author: By Mike Kennedy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: College World Series: Of Devils and Phantoms | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...spring vacation in Florida and if you hadn't noticed that every other person is wearing a tan (mine's a Group III) these days then you probably bump into a lot of trees...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...accident that a new strain of elves-gremlins-magically appeared at about the time of World War II, when things began going wrong with airplanes. For centuries the presence of fairies helped temper parental rage at the misbehavior of children; the ethereal little devils were responsible. When things went bump in the night, it was far better to suspect the hobgoblins than creatures more substantial and threatening. Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries. The highest compliment Edmund Spenser could pay Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Looks at the Little People | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Highly touted Cornell also got the bump from lowly Pennsylvania down in Philadelphia, and Rennsaeler Polytechnic Institute, the hardest team to figure out this year, pulled one of its bi-weekly shockers by nipping top-ranked New Hampshire, 4-3, in overtime...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Weekend of Upsets in College Sports: ECAC Hockey, NCAA Hoop Surprises | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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