Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energetic vocal thrust, hardly what you'd expect from a shy, playful, innocent-looking singer who stands on stage clutching the microphone, rarely strutting about, even on the boldest tunes, gives Linda Ronstadt the power to captivate an audience. In it's February 1977 cover story on Ronstadt, Time called that vocal power "torchy rock." Well, you can choose your own descriptive term; whatever you want to call it, it's the essence of Ronstadt's appeal and the reason why she'll remain atop the rock world for years to come...
Snags immediately developed. B.R.A.C. Chief Fred Kroll refused to heed Carter's order until he got a court-backed guarantee that no reprisals would be taken against union members by the railroads. Then a U.S. district court in Washington postponed a decision on a rail industry call for a no-strike injunction against the union; the court questioned whether the Railway Act empowers the White House to halt a strike already in progress...
...York housewife (Fawcett-Majors) would fall instantly in love with a shleppy Macy's salesman (Jeff Bridges) she spots across a crowded store. Minutes later, the heroine decides to abandon her husband for this nearly complete stranger - only to discover that Hubby has just been murdered. Rather than call the police, she and her new boyfriend set out to solve the case themselves. What follows is a series of progressively more improbable events. To buy this film's plot, it isn't enough to suspend disbelief; you have to submit to a lobotomy...
...Shortstop Patek's missing part of a West Coast road trip. He claimed he was hurt, but a few players suggested he was a hypochondriac. Big deal. With such a mild-mannered crew to boss, Manager Herzog gives his players free rein and has found it necessary to call only one meeting all year long, which must be a league record...
...What people need," says one of The Law Store's founders, Attorney Stuart Baron, 40, "is accessibility, an attorney to talk to, the ability to pick up the phone and call somebody." Indeed, according to a recent American Bar Foundation study, 36% of Americans have never used an attorney. In 1973, with that untapped market in mind, Baron and his partner, Attorney Blair Melvin, 44, founded Group Legal Services. Today the firm offers round-the-clock legal consultations by phone to 20,000 California families for annual fees ranging from $35 to $60. For Baron and Melvin...