Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blurred work copy of the 4 hours 38 minutes of Ophuls' version and spirited it off to the U.S. Since then, Ophuls has screened the only existing copy of his film-"the version," he says, "I'll stand by"-for critics and friends, in an effort to drum up support...
...drum choir of congas, bongos and timbales sets up a spiky beat punctuated by rattling maracas and a shower of cowbells. A pair of trumpets blasts off in the brass brigade. At the center of the excitement a small, bearded figure huddles over the piano, sweat pouring off his face. Eddie Palmieri attacks the keyboard with fingers, forearms and chin before a sellout crowd at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall...
...Fackler has yet to integrate into her life at Radcliffe is baton twirling. Fackler has been twirling since the age of nine and she's a member of the World Twirling Association--but the closest thing to performing as a majorette at Harvard is beating the "world's largest" drum in the Harvard band. When Fackler was a senior in high school and again her freshman year at Ohio State she won the senior division in national twirling competition. Then, in December of 1974, she was named the "World's Most Beautiful Majorette (Collegiate Division)." She is out of competition...
...Ways and Means Committee, which is writing the key legislation. Every Monday, lobbyists from 30 or so of the federation's affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught on Capitol Hill. The 51 state federations of the AFL-CIO are calling meetings to drum up more opposition to Ford's program, and the weekly AFL-CIO News, Meany's house organ (circ. 60,000), is shrilly calling for more action. Reads a typical headline: CONGRESS, FORD HIT FOR LACK OF URGENCY...
...intelligence agent cramming for a new identity. In his tiny, crabbed script, he fills one small notebook after another with research. DeNiro says he concocts an entire biography for a character: "Where he is from, where he is going, how he holds his knife and fork." For Bang the Drum, DeNiro, who had never played baseball, spent weeks in south Georgia and in spring-training camps in Florida learning the life of a tobacco-chawing Dixie ballplayer. "The first day I got to Georgia," DeNiro recalls, "I met a guy in a pickup truck and he drove me around...