Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with hype and hoopla worthy of a glamorous growth industry. But at last week's extravaganza in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, the glamour was tempered by a touch of gloom. Attendance was disappointing, most of the new products were unexciting, and exhibitors were hard pressed to drum up enthusiasm. Even the shapely brunet in a bright-red leotard who was posted in front of the NEC Corp. booth did not attract a crowd. Summed up Morton Goldman, vice president of Elek-Tek, a Chicago-area retailer: "We're very disappointed. This business is in trouble right...
Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost thinks that 'Producer Paul Hardiman' is a pseudonym for James Taylor...
Hersey does not drum up any pious conclusions about the saintliness of humble work. There are some obvious parallels between American evangelism and the politics of Manifest Destiny. With some skillful prodding, the documents and , memories he has rescued from obscurity speak for themselves. Treadup's disillusionment achieves a rare authenticity because it is earned on every page. And that makes Hersey's slow book to China worth every word...
Suddenly, Sudan seemed renewed. The change began with drum rolls and music on state-run Radio Omdurman, after which General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister, proclaimed to the country, "The government is finished. The people stand united." Within minutes, the capital city of Khartoum, which had been in a state of paralysis, sprang to life. Drivers honked their horns, radios blared, and hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets, cheering, chanting, dancing, embracing. Policemen smiled; children, shouting, rode on the tops and trunks of cars...
...Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter, 47, stayed in the Army; last December he was promoted to major general and put in command of a newly organized light infantry division at Fort Drum...