Word: frights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never worry about S. M. U.," he said. "We always win against them. But it's good to break into a new season with a weaker team, so you can get over the stage fright...
After years of sashaying across the home screen, the lean and leathery cowboys of the Marlboro cigarette commercials will ride off into the sunset on New Year's Day. The fright-wigged models in Virginia Slims' television ads will take their last mincing turn as symbols of women's emancipation, and Winston's abrasively ungrammatical TV message will be ending for good, as a worn theme should. By act of Congress, promotions for cigarettes, which many studies have found to be a cause of cancer, heart disease and other ailments, will be barred from television...
...himself. Before Frosch's arrival in Cambodia, U.P.I, had suffered from embarrassing gaffes, even reporting the proclamation of the Cambodian Republic twice before it really happened, months later. With Frosch's appearance, cool reason and uncommon accuracy became standard. Violence scared Frosch, and he admitted it. But fright was a thing to be lived with in order...
...Stage Fright, the group's best record yet, their sound remains an intricate and often complex assimilation of styles, with heavy emphasis on country and good old rock and roll. If anything, the sound is now simpler, more accessible. But deceptively so. It complements a lyric complexity that only emphasizes that The Band gets into territory few popular musicians have ever traveled. Among many other things, the album talks about the terrors of performing and violence on the streets, but does it all with such infectious and graceful simplicity that you'll really have to listen, and then...
...bids to be the album's most popular cut. A jaunty tune, it covers in four fast minutes the loss of a girl, getting busted, a "rumble in the alley," and concludes, "Save your neck or save your brother/Looks like its one or the other." Stage Fright, the title song, is a scary story about a poor "ploughboy" who becomes a musician and nightly relives the waking nightmare of performance, his brow sweating and mouth dry while the audience cries out. "Please don't make him stop . . . Let him start all over again...