Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, feel Carlucci did little more than trim the margins. Carlucci scoffs at such sniping. Says he: "My phone is ringing off the hook from people on ((Capitol)) Hill who don't like my killing this weapons system and that weapons system." In fact, though, the systems he has hit -- primarily an Army pilotless plane, the Midgetman single-warhead nuclear missile and an antisatellite system -- are unpopular with either the services, Congress or both...
...After eight shows at Radio City, the concert will head out to 65 cities in the heartland. "How many people here under 20?" shouts Bill Medley, once a Righteous Brother and now the revue's closing act, before jumping into (I've Had) The Time of My Life, his hit theme from the movie. His question gets a good roar from the crowd. "How many over 20?" Another roar. The show, which combines live performance with taped oldies, offers up similarly canned memories: blasts from a past now distant enough to seem quaint...
...scoped out a trend that goes beyond recycling oldies. Producers are trying to realchemize the sound of early '60s pop with singers too young to know the decade by anything but rumor and parental reminiscence. Tiffany, a 17-year-old singer from Norwalk, Calif., had a surprise No. 1 hit last year with her version of the Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit I Think We're Alone Now. Tiffany, who concertized in shopping malls to reach her public, is working on a new album, which will face heavy competition in the pube-rock field...
...P.L.O.'s image. For years, violence and terror were important weapons in the campaign for independence. The intifadeh has changed perceptions, painting the Palestinians as ill-armed victims of Israeli truncheons and gunfire. Israel did its share to bolster sympathy for the P.L.O. by sending to Tunis the hit team that in April assassinated the organization's military commander, Khalil al-Wazir...
...that she had drowned him in his bath. Reason: she could not stand his incessant crying. A year earlier, Michele Remington, a factory worker in Bennington, Vt., fatally shot her infant son with a .22-cal. handgun before unsuccessfully trying to kill herself. Kathleen Householder, of Rippon, W. Va., hit her two-week-old daughter in the head with a fist-size rock because she was "fussing"; Householder dumped the tiny body in a nearby river...