Word: macs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pardon me if I've stepped out of the baseline, but if you call playing the Los Angeles Cadavers in a best-of-seven series "pressure" after the Yankees' season-long domestic squabbles and the almost fatal playoffs with the Royals, I think you're buying your drugs from Mac Herron...
Have you ever wondered what Mozart might create if he were to set out to compose music today? If you haven't, you probably have wondered how Mozart would react to Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, or even Fleetwood Mac. Maybe they're both the same question. In any event, the first question is the one which Larry Livingston, music director of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, will address Tuesday night in the NEC's first "Music After Five" program of the season. Livingston's lecture and demonstration is one of half-a-dozen mostly free classical events this week...
...general, mellifluous names tend to have passive or negative meanings, and the macho names tend to sound like sharp, short yelps (Bart, Kent, Mac, Matt, Bill, Nate). Despite Bogart, Humphrey retains its depressing image ("terribly unpopular, sedentary"), but Sophia Loren has influenced her first name, which now means "a bombshell." Gina, Brian and Douglas are among the most dynamic and positive names...
Charges that fast-food uniformity is turning the U.S. into the land of the bland should not be swallowed. A Big Mac may be a Big Mac wherever one roams, but in the interstices of the chains a Petronian diversity of foodstuffs is being sold with dispatch. On the Fourth, New Englanders will be flocking to Clam Shacks for rolls stuffed with batter-fried whole quahogs or steamers. Sightseers in Plains, Ga., will stop at the Americus outlet of McWaffles, which puts peanuts in the batter and serves "the Presidential Waffle" with a side order of peanut butter...
...southern hinterlands. Ray Davies and the Kinks will be playing out at the Cape Cod Coliseum on July 2. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $8.50 the day of the show and are available at the Out of Town Newsstand in the Square. Later in the week, Fleetwood Mac will play their various chartbusters at the Providence, R.I., Civic Center. Tickets for both concerts are available at the Out of Town Ticket Office in the Square...