Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying Down to Rio is more than an old movie to Singer-Actress Raquel Welch, 33. It's becoming a habit. During her nightclub tour of South America in February, Raquel showed up at Rio's carnival on the elbow of Paulo Pil-la, 32, a former public relations man. Recently she ventured south again to spend eight days with Paulo in Buzios, a few more in Petrdpolis, followed by a final fling on the Copacabana. Raquel, said observers, appeared to be apaixonada. In rough Portuguese, that means bonkers about Pilla. The twosome evaded publicity until their last...
Bell is skeptical about his fellow citizens, who, he feels, are ensnared by modernism. The once open American society is growing more rigid and confining. With few values and convictions to restrain them, people increasingly elbow one another aside as they push their rights and privileges to an extreme. Conveying an almost physical repugnance at this gathering chaos, Bell warns of the "megalomania of self-infinitization...
...Barry Lyndon sound-track album (Warner Bros.), the Chieftains' music consists of dances and airs played on tin whistles (surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes are pumped by a bellows under the right arm of the player, who must be able to finger and pump at the same time...
...atomic-powered arm that can knock down walls, lift cars and pull out trees by the roots. Reid Hilton's new arm is only slightly less remarkable−and considerably less expensive. Hilton, 24, a Santa Ana, Calif., karate expert who lost his right arm below the elbow in an accident, will probably not risk smashing bricks with his experimental $40,000 replacement. But the prosthesis should enable him, with practice, to function like a man with two natural arms, and in some ways outperform...
Welch himself is rather unprepossessing. When I was ushered in to meet him, he was wearing pajamas and a worn blue corduroy bathrobe with a hole in the right elbow; my tour guide explained later that the 76-year-old Welch can only sleep two hours at a time, "it's not just physical, you know, there's just so much to do and watch for." It was a large office/sanctum on the second floor of 395 Concord Avenue, carpeted, bookshelved, same fake wood paneling as everything else, spattered with flag plaques and Statue of Liberty trophies, with typewriters pittering...