Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve and 22 points. Only one pivotal state, Massachusetts, seemed to be going the other way. Combining the states that are either solid for Nixon or leaning Republican, the poll showed the President with 318 electoral votes in the 16-state sample alone. That is 48 more than the magic number, and of course he can be expected to get more votes in the remaining states. Even in the unlikely event that McGovern were able to capture all those states now leaning toward Nixon, the resulting electoral votes, combined with the 14 from Massachusetts, would still put him behind Nixon...
...sidewalks suggested that in New York, personality and companionship had ceased to exist in public places--except as they had been re-invented by the younger and more adventurous city-dwellers. One re-invention of public personality that has recently swept New York is the spray-painting and magic marking of every available surface, especially subway cars, by teenage graffitists. Their calling cards are everywhere in the city, proclaiming that these teenagers may be crazy, but they are surviving: Junior 151; Mouse 162; Super Kool...
...have never been able to figure out why Bogart and Appice. If they were steeped in the Young Rascals--NYC lounge tradition, we could chalk it up to white soul, but they aren't. Maybe it's magic. Anyway, BBA is not the holding action Beck claims his two previous bands were. They are new to each other, though, and their Boston show Tuesday last opened with a vague feeling of indirection. The song was new, and, as a show opener, had a definite warm-up feeling to it, while making sure the audience recognized Beck's tendencies towards...
...upbeat force who neatly counterpoints Mick Jagger's pervading and well-publicized sympathy for the devil. As a soloist, Stewart displays one of those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British rock-'n'-roll band known as Faces, he is one superstar...
...first three quarters of 1972, to a third-quarter annual rate estimated at close to $730 billion; the increases have been half again as great as the rises in 1971. Lately buying has become even more aggressive. "It's almost as if Aug. 1 was a magic date-sales have picked up so well since," says John Brunelle, vice president of San Francisco-based I. Magnin department stores. Alvin Ferst, vice president of Rich's in Atlanta, agrees: "I cannot lay my finger on a concrete reason, but there has been a general resurgence of spending...