Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOBODY EXPECTED the Eagles to pull this one off. Hotel California, their last album, betrayed a group hesitant to stray from familiar territory, unwilling to explore themes beyond the California fast life, unrequited love and witchy, lying women. And after Hotel California Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner went the solo route, leaving the band treading water in the backwash of the New Wave tide. But somehow the Eagles stayed afloat. Somehow they coaxed Walsh back into the flock, incorporated new themes into their music, and experimented with new sounds. And somehow The Long Run turned out to be a surprisingly...
...novelty that is the greatest asset of The Long Run is also what bogs it down. In abandoning the slick mediocrity of Hotel California, the Eagles have sacrificed the unity of their previous albums. The old style was wearing thin, but it was the Eagles; and its only vestige is the desperado voice of Don Henley. The new cuts have more depth, but they point in many different directions...
...have won him some election campaign points, coming when oil companies have been announcing unexpectedly high profits. Last week, following reports by other major oil companies of large third-quarter profit boosts, including Exxon's 118% rise to a record $1.1 billion, the Standard Oil Co. of California announced a quarterly gain of 110%. Ten of the largest U.S. oil companies showed third-quarter gains averaging...
From that beginning have sprung enough plots, subplots and sub-subplots to propel a dozen shows. There is so much going on, in fact, that CBS will spin off a new series, called Knot's Landing, next January, with the feckless Gary re-emerging in Southern California. In the past year in Dallas, meantime, there have been three kidnapings and one violent death. J.R. has forcibly committed his alcoholic wife Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) to a drying-out clinic. Vowing revenge, she has taken up with Pam's brother, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval). "I'm just...
...politick. And politicians are entitled to use every self-serving gimmick that the law allows. Still, given the American tendency to worship stars, one may wonder whether eventually show business might be too casually accepted as an appropriate training ground for political leadership. The question is pertinent even if California's election of Actor George Murphy as a U.S. Senator is shrugged off as a typical West Coast aberration...