Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Growing up, you heard fairy tales. Growing up in the north of England, Alan Price heard about the Jarrow March. The government shut down the shipbuilding yards, even blew up construction cranes. The workers were starving; their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the...
Price is not best known for the incendiary qualities of his music. His keyboard skills have been celebrated since his days as a cornerstone member of the Animals, one of the most vigorous of the Beatles-era British rock groups. His songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of...
"And now, in this corner ... Ed (Too Tall') Jones?" The 6-ft. 9-in. Tennessean played defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys for five seasons, but he has abandoned his $150,000-a-year gridiron career for a shot at professional boxing. "Football was always my third favorite sport...
Hugh Gallen, Democratic Governor of New Hampshire, on energy and his state's 1980 primary: "If your pipes are frozen and you have a President on the streets asking for your vote, the voters are going to answer that gentleman."
If American mass culture is a true index of the national spirit, then the 1980s may be more boring than the 1970s. Or so one might conclude after surveying the network television schedules that will usher in the next decade. The new series of the 1979-80 season are a...