Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chap who put an eye patch on the Hathaway shirt man and made Commander Whitehead a household beard consistently heeds the advice he has dispensed for decades. In the Confessions he warned never to be boring, and to repeat that previous campaign-the earlier book was intended to drum up business, and did-would thus be a sin. Blood, Brains and Beer also adheres to other cardinal principles of admaking: the straight story, smoothly told, sells stuff best; it is wrong to lie, but feel free to omit; humor should not be overdone (it is a bit too scarce...
MUSICALLY, TOO, it's the off-stage performances that are the best. Browne and Frey do a delightfully drugged-out version of Rev. Gary Davis's "Cocaine," recorded at a Holiday Inn in Edwardsville, Illinois; and Russ Kunkel stars on a makeshift drum kit on "Nothing But Time," a funky traveling song done on the band's Continental Silver Eagle bus "somewhere in New Jersey," the liner notes tell...
...body counts and South Vietnamese preoccupied with heroin smuggling. The good guys are the Marines in Company C, all of whom, apparently, fought the war against their will. The Vietnamese peasants are represented by picturesque extras who seem to be refugees from a way ward road company of Flower Drum Song...
...Duke himself, Actor John Wayne, a conservative on most issues but a supporter of the treaties ceding the canal to Panama. Meanwhile, a "Panama Canal truth squad," including several members of Congress and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting four U.S. cities to drum up opposition to the treaties. As part of an Administration counteroffensive, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made a three-day swing through the South and West before shuttling off to the Middle East. This week Defense Secretary Harold Brown will hit the road for a three-state speaking tour...
...keep oil prices stable. Last month Saudi Arabia was a sponsor of the six-month lid on price increases that the OPEC nations approved at their conference in Caracas. Further, the President wants to urge the Saudi leaders to use their pursestring powers over poorer Arab countries to drum up more support for Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo. Khalid and Fahd will almost certainly seek assurances that the U.S. will press Israel for a solution that is fair to all Arabs, including the Palestinians...