Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking of a '60s classic like Good Lovin', the point for McFerrin "isn't to be instrumental but to tell a story. Like an actor, I get into character...
...stepped from La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, and headed for a nearby government building. There he told TV viewers that the public had said no to the extension. The final tally, with 7.2 million votes cast: 54.7% to 43%. Despite the hour, several hundred jubilant demonstrators sounded car horns in the capital and howled delightedly, "He fell! He fell...
...rerun market). "I sit in on development meetings," says Harris Katleman, president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. "I don't let someone develop a Star Wars. It would be crazy. We don't do westerns either, and we don't do big shows that require locations, car crashes and lots of stunts...
This penny-pinching approach could lead to what producer Aaron Spelling calls "bottled shows." "We always want to see someone come driving up to a house and going to the front door," says Spelling. "Now you will hear the car pulling up, the door slamming, and see someone coming into the house. I hate to see that happen." Some shows, like CBS's Wiseguy, are being shot in Canada to save money. Others are being jointly produced with foreign companies to spread the costs...
...Faneuil Hall and a jewelers--I needed a map. I went to three terminal gift shops, and none had a city map; only postcard foldouts of the Freedom Trail and a glossy New England map extravaganza which was far beyond my means and interests. Eventually, a woman at the car rental desk gave me a Mapa de Boston, written entirely in Portugese, but with most downtown streets clearly marked and cartooned throughout, with yellow financial buildings and red churches. The time had come...