Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lisbon. From their windows fluttered red flags emblazoned with the Socialist symbol-the clenched fist. Their destination was the First of May Stadium, where some 100,000 supporters turned out last week to hear Socialist Leader Mário Soares and watch folk dancers, prancing majorettes and a blaring drum-and-bugle corps...
...short pants. On opening day, peg-legged Veeck (he lost his leg as a result of a 1943 war wound) choreographed some Bicentennial foofaraw and greeted his crowd as the fife player in a fetching patriotic ceremony. Marching across the field with him were Business Manager Rudie Schaffer on drum and stern Sox Manager Paul Richards bearing the flag, both as resplendent as Veeck in Revolutionary War costumes...
With the federal spigot turned off, and only so many $1,000 contributors to be found,* candidates are resorting more and more to "events" to raise cash. Arlo Guthrie is arranging concerts in 22 cities to drum up $250,000 for the faltering Harris campaign. Other candidates are relying on telethons, rock concerts, breakfasts and dinners to which they try to send their wives or children if they cannot attend themselves. Udall has forced himself to attend as many as three fund-raising parties a night despite being bone-weary from full days of campaigning...
...goes in this atmosphere of raw capitalism. Marley's rock guitars, the tribal chanting of a group like Burning Spear, even Toots and the Maytals' infatuation with U.S. country-and-western, are allowed inside the reggae big top. Organs, saxophones and flutes often accompany the basic guitar-drum-bass troika...
Producers also spike sales by making "dubs" of their hit releases. Designed for dancing, dubs consist solely of the five guitar-drum-bass rhythm tracks. Kingston's 70 discotheques crave "greatest hits" album dubs, but since they cost twice the normal amount, only the capital's top dozen discos can afford them...