Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joffe and the others hoped that a Woodstock appearance would launch them to national prominence. And it did, but not in the way they had expected...
...tried a case. The real "moving force" in the probes was Alan Lieberman, a Marston subordinate and career Government lawyer who is still in charge of them. Bell described Marston as good at "calling press conferences" and remembered that when the U.S. Attorney's office was about to launch an investigation of police brutality in Philadelphia, he explicitly ordered Marston not to call a press conference about it. (Retorted Marston: "If he really believes what he is saying, I think he was derelict in not firing me sooner...
Beginning with Reed's tenure in the Velvet Underground more than a decade ago, he has been fashioning some of the strongest music you can hear anywhere. Going solo, he anticipated and helped launch both the underground and glitter rock extravagances of the early '70s; his finely focused rage, his risk-it-all personal reflections, have given the punk rockers strong inspiration. Reed's recent Arista album, Street Hassle, is one of his very best, bitterest and most adventurous records, prime rock unconditionally guaranteed to give you the night sweats...
Chapman also said Higginson didn't seem ready to use the ice-free Charles as soon as possible after the winter. "Last month Harry Parker went out and beat the ice into submission with his launch for three days, four hours a day. Then Harry had the heavyweights rowing three times on the weekend and seat-racing by Monday. We, on the other hand, didn't row on the water during the weekend and John didn't have his launch ready and out on the water until Wednesday. We could have taken advantage of the water more quickly...
...Star Editor Jim Bellows to revive its long flaccid Herald-Examiner (circ. 331,000). Bellows has softened the paper's eye-straining makeup, imported hot-blooded young writers and editors from the East, hired David Frost's girlfriend, Caroline Gushing, to write gossip items, is about to launch a graphically dramatic Sunday photo magazine, and is even thinking about changing the paper's name back to the simpler Examiner. But the retooled daily has not yet made any major circulation gains, and it still runs a pathetically distant second in advertising to the Times, which controls...