Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East. A settlement, he told members of the TIME news tour (TIME, Feb. 10), would "enable us to work seriously on real problems instead of killing ourselves. The price of oil would then come down, just as the prices of other commodities would come down." He advocated closer relationships between the industrial and oil-producing nations and insisted that the last thing the Saudi government wanted to do was cause a further increase in the price of oil "that would threaten the economies of our friends in the U.S. or Europe...
...principle he welcomed the investigations. He said: "There has been much exaggeration and misunderstanding. I both hope and sincerely believe that after reviewing the whole matter, it will come out that these were minor problems rather than major issues." The director predicted that the hearings will result in closer congressional scrutiny of the CIA, though he added: "This confronts us with a problem. How do you resolve the need for secrecy with the desire of a substantial number of Congressmen to have significant knowledge...
This first attempt at a "rock opera" was composed by Peter Townshend of The Who and performed by the group on a record album released in 1969. Tommy was closer to oratorio than opera, but the most serious thing about the entire piece was the lofty label that was pinned on it. Tommy was just strong rock 'n' roll, sometimes raunchy, sometimes highfalutin. The Who even wound up performing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an appearance that was less an honor than a shrewd piece of promotion. Tommy has not only endured since then...
...said. "Ken not only stretched me; he put me through the wringer." Wearing a knit jumpsuit, she had to dance around a smashed TV set as the room filled with soapsuds. "But the room filled up so fast I couldn't see anything. There was Ken shouting closer, closer, and I bumped into the TV." Rushed to the hospital for 23 stitches in her hand, Ann-Margret noticed only belatedly that her jumpsuit had shrunk to half size...
...easy to imagine the shows as great emperor-without-clothes scenes--the critics and collectors, as Tom Wolfe writes, "now squinting, now popping the eye sockets open, now drawing back, now moving closer--waiting, waiting, forever waiting for...it...for it to come into focus, namely the visual reward (for so much effort) which must be there, which every (tout le monde) knew to be there--waiting for something to radiate directly from the paintings...