Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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November's price increases bear out his prediction. Global oil supplies are plentiful, yet prices continue to soar. The oil companies "are stockpiling oil as fast as it can be produced," reports the Wall Street Journal...
NOBODY EXPECTED the Eagles to pull this one off. Hotel California, their last album, betrayed a group hesitant to stray from familiar territory, unwilling to explore themes beyond the California fast life, unrequited love and witchy, lying women. And after Hotel California Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner went the solo route, leaving the band treading water in the backwash of the New Wave tide. But somehow the Eagles stayed afloat. Somehow they coaxed Walsh back into the flock, incorporated new themes into their music, and experimented with new sounds. And somehow The Long Run turned out to be a surprisingly...
...carrier that serves 23 cities, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York, with a fleet of jets. This fiscal year it turned its first real profit: $2.4 million. Says Chairman C. Edward Acker: "Without deregulation we'd still be tiny. It has given us the ability to move fast into markets...
...Rose is exactly the kind of vehicle one would expect for Midler's screen debut: it aspires to the tradition of Funny Girl and Lady Sings the Blues, musicals that boosted Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross to fast movie stardom by casting them as legendary singers of the past. Still, there is a basic flaw in The Rose's design that makes the film hard to take seriously. While Streisand and Ross were reasonably plausible stand-ins for Fanny Brice and Billie Holiday, Midler is not credible as a bluesy rock belter. Her strident Broadway voice and campy...
...Establishment, Fast (4 last week) 2. The Dead Zone, King (2) 3. Jailbird, Vonnegut (3) 4. Triple, Follett (1) 5. Sophie's Choice, Styron (6) 6. The Last Enchantment, Stewart (5) 7. Shadow of the Moon, Kaye (9) 8. The Executioner's Song, Mailer 9. War and Remembrance, Wouk 10. The Green Ripper, MacDonald...