Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker describes the closing series of songs in the Sha concert as an example of keeping an audience up: "We go from 'Duke of Earl' to 'Rama Lama Ding Dong' to 'At the Hop'--just bam bam bam. We're out of there. Come back on for 'Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay.' Come back on--our encores are all up tempo until we've got them standing on their feet. And then we just go--bam--and let them down with "Lovers Never Say Goodbye' and they know it's over. It's like a play or anything...
...educated at Brown and George Washington universities, Colson lives comfortably with his second wife, Patty, in their large Tudor house on two acres of wooded land in McLean, Va. One thing she enjoys about her husband, Patty has said, is that he is "so commanding"−he says hop and you hop." The key to Colson's personality, a former friend declares, is that the onetime Marine captain ("It was a great life; I loved it") is tough. Adds this intimate: "There were a lot of tough people at the White House. The two toughest were Nixon and Colson...
...nostalgia movie a la mode and its success in reconstructing the early sixties is phenomenal. From the Coke to the burger stands with waitresses on roller-skates, from the souped-up cars to the ducktails and pony-tails, from the gang of hoods to the sock-hop, Lucas is unerring in his eye for detail and in his ability to bring his audience eleven years into the past...
...cloudless evening late last week when Iraqi Airways Flight 006 lifted off from Beirut International Airport bound for Baghdad. Aboard the Caravelle jet were 74 passengers and eight crew members, none expecting much more than a smooth hop to the Iraqi capital. Suddenly, Israeli Phantom jets pounced, ordering the helpless captain to fly instead to a military airbase near Haifa. He obeyed. As he told Beirut Control: "I don't want a repeat of the Libyan thing," in which Israeli jets last February shot down a Libyan airliner over the Sinai, killing 108 of the 113 aboard, after...
...When I read your article, "The Third Age" [May 7], I wanted to hop on the next plane for France and join the sports club of retired persons at Grenoble...