Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years without a day of happiness," she is not tearjerking but heart rending. Aldredge comes in a close second. As Horace, he raises his feeble but valiant arm in a salute to the values of the Old South that is being displaced by the New. The throngs who jam the box office may not care. They have booked passage on the QE3, and on its maiden New York voyage that redoubtable vessel will be in full sail till Labor...
Moments later, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, both 38, bounded down the steps and on to the reception at a private Mayfair club. Starr, using a pair of overturned champagne buckets as drums and with a little help from his two friends, staged an impromptu jam session. The poignant reunion came after the recording of All Those Years Ago, a musical tribute to John Lennon written by Harrison. It is due out in June as a single and will be a track on his new album. Somewhere in England. The cut was recorded with a pair of Wings...
...that would normally be lavished on a Big Mac during the lunchtime rush. The dialogue (in a pre-Tarzan patois) rarely gets more sophisticated than "Aieee! Kuda! Ma pooka ma bobo aloonda zug-zug fech macha!"* But Ringo is splendid leading his tribe in man's first jam session, and the rest of the cast is fully up to the demands of the script. Kudos to Richard Moll as an Abominable Snowman who shambles around like Groucho Marx in sopping-wet fake fur, and to an animated Tyrannosaurus rex who deserves next ear's Oscar for Best Supporting...
Schools sometimes advertise on roadside billboards. More make their pitch on radio and in newspapers. But the sales aids that really hit home are the unsolicited recruitment letters that jam mailboxes of high school seniors...
DIED. Reuben Maury, 81, soft-spoken lawyer-turned-journalist who wrote hard-hitting, influential editorials for the New York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page...