Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams and someone is hosing down the sidewalk and he's only in his teens...
Orchestra musicians are bewitched as much by his personality as by his musicianship. He insists that his players call him Slava, not maestro. He refuses to place himself on a pedestal higher than the podium. Herbert von Karajan once broke up a rehearsal when he spied a musician chewing gum. Szell was a tyrant. Toscanini's men loved him, yet trembled before his baton-snapping temper. "Sometimes," says Rostropovich in his near-impenetrable English, "conductor says to orchestra, 'You play for me and my ego!' No. Orchestra must not think conductor is god. Some day he is running quick...
...Allen's apartment, but she stayed in New York, and lived for a while with another man. Through the five years since they split, she and Allen have maintained an unshakable friendship; they confer at dinner, catch a Knicks' game, work together, each one busily putting bubble-gum patches on the insecurities of the other...
...Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...Cosmos, the second half for the Brazilians). Meanwhile, the soccer players are learning fast some of the more rewarding nuances of U.S. sports. They are in the process of forming a players' union to bargain for a bigger share of the gate receipts. Can soccer bubble-gum cards be far behind...