Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black cumulonimbus clouds rolled in on New York City, darkening the afternoon sky up to nearly 40,000 ft. Lightning bolts darted above Manhattan's skyscrapers. Thunder sporadically overwhelmed the city's normal noises of traffic, subways and sirens. It would be a wet but cool rush hour, a welcome break in the summer's first siege of humid heat...
...North London, where they perfected remarkably friction-free methods of collaborating. "It's so simple," says Taupin. "Bernie writes lyrics. Bernie gives lyrics to Elton. Elton writes a song. And plays it back to Bernie. It sounds cold, but it's not." It takes Bernie only an hour to write the words and Elton about half that time to set them to music. Though they may throw away, they never revise...
...time I arrived, Great Britain's Mark Phillips had already ridden. I was crushed. It was like going to a rock concert late and finding out the band had opened with one of the two songs you knew and liked. Princess Anne was to ride in another hour, though, so all was not lost...
Tomorrow. Tom Snyder is the host for a six-hour Fourth of July celebration. Even if you've had your fill of Snyder and of Bicentennial tripe, you might stay tuned for a bit of local color: in addition to interviews with Jimmy Breslin, Las Vegas tourists and Wernher von Braun, Snyder will talk with "young people at Harvard...
...Williams is a burly, middle-aged, old-school liberal; Nelson is a young, super ambitious libertarian.) But this will probably dissolve into a classic more-heat-than-light confrontation, especially considering the not very narrow topic of tonight's debate: "Does the 'System' work?" Ch. 5, 11 p.m. 1 hour...