Word: classically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are disappointments on the album, especially a remake of the Elvis Presley classic "Love Me Tender." Ronstadt's stab at the tune is too polished, too slick to work well. She obliterated Presley's rough edges and raw power. "Blowing Away," a lethargic, mournful ballad in which producer-manager Asher sings background, dies before it starts, lacking the poignancy that makes Ronstadt's slowest songs click. A 1934 Oscar Hammerstein song, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," despite a pretty electric piano line, also falls short. Ronstadt plays with a cutesy, childlike voice which makes the song sound...
...Organization Man, wrote William H. Whyte in the final paragraph of his 1956 classic, must fight The Organisation William Whyte, meet fletcher Byrom. A feisty fellow, Byrom lives by the philosophy that the highest form of loyalty is to battle organizational rigidities and inertia...
...Royals in the final inning of the final game, and, in 1977, Royals' Shortstop Fred Patek openly and unashamedly weeping while he sat alone on the bench after another final-game loss to the Yankees. Wait until next year, the Royals' fans kept muttering, in the classic fashion of losers, and now next year begins this week when Kansas City once again gets its chance to win the American League pennant and, at long last, bask in the glory of the World Series...
...Angry Men. "I guess I go overboard to avoid taking credit for the image I have," says Fonda. "That way it's easier to live with myself. I don't feel I'm totally a man of integrity." He pauses thoughtfully, in the classic Fonda manner, and adds: "But if there is something in the eyes, a kind of honesty in the face, then I guess you could say that's the man I'd like to be, the man I want...
...corporation would never be satisfied with a 3 per cent return because it could make 8 or 10 per cent elsewhere. But owners from the community or workforce mainly want the jobs--profits matter only in so far as they help pay for modernizing. It's the classic case of the counter-productive profit motive...