Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs of John Denver may be heard along the Great Wall. When the country-and-western singer performed at the Kennedy Center gala for Teng Hsiao-p'ing, he won a new fan and the Vice Premier's autograph...
Ballet dancing Rodeo, Rudolf Serkin playing a Schubert impromptu and John Denver singing Rocky Mountain High. Then came a surprise for basketball fan Teng, the clowning of the Harlem Globetrotters. Teng also clearly enjoyed the singing of I Love T'ien An Men Square, in Chinese, by the 80-member National Children's Choir. After the show the Carters, Teng, and his wife, who was holding hands with Amy Carter, rushed up to shake hands with the Globetrotters and kiss the children. Carter finally exited with Teng stage left, his arm draped casually around the Vice Premier...
...comics themselves used cinematic techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...
Despite the conservative trend and the new combativeness of Republicans, Byrd quickly took charge of the 96th ses sion. "Bobby Byrd has a hammer inside that velvet glove," says Cranston. The man who plays a mean fiddle off-hours displayed some fan cy footwork on the Senate floor last week. Frustrated in past sessions by the increased use of the filibuster and the postcloture filibuster, Byrd decided to do something about both obstructionist tactics. After much study, he was convinced, just be fore the session began, that he had found an answer, though he was not telling anybody what...
...slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game...