Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop while his right frolics on a freewheeling holiday. Eyes squinched in concentration, his yard-wide smile flashing like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked as a jigsaw puzzle. "These Russian cats really dig what we have to offer!" exclaimed Hines in Kiev. "They won't let us get off the stage...
...only made the scene. But the main thing is that rock 'n' roll is the first original development in popular music since jazz. Groups like The Beatles and The Stones display a phenomenal melodic inventiveness and a harmonic and contrapuntal imagination that even us squares can dig...
...friendly central banks of eleven countries propped up the faltering pound with $1 billion of aid (TIME, June 24). Last week sterling suffered another sinking spell. At one point it dropped to an exchange rate of $2.7869, its lowest level in 21 months, forcing the Bank of England to dig into the country's slim reserves to shore up the currency...
Royko pummels Mayor Daley more than anybody else ("The greatest public-works director in the country; he just doesn't dig people"). But he has as much fun flattening lesser dignitaries. When he took out after Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, Royko wrote: "Remember, back in 1959 Quinn was the person who put Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts...
Among the rest of the corps, claims Fried, "you don't see enough digging, or balance." Too many reporters, he insists, still look upon Buddhist "politicians" as religious figures and take them at their word. To Fried, the immolations and amputations "are show biz," and it is a reporter's job to dig behind the pizazz...