Word: nes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural extension of Fiedler's concern with the "other." Only now he confronts not society's but nature's own outsiders. He would prefer a term less offensive than freaks, though he defends it against such euphemisms as mistakes of nature and phenomènes on the grounds that they "lack the resonance necessary to represent the sense of quasi-religious awe which we experience first and most strongly as children: face to face with fellow humans more marginal than the poorest sharecroppers or black convicts on a Mississippi chain gang...
...where was I? For sure--we were discussing British rock. And Mick Jagger? Well...How about some Alex Harvey for those of you enamoured of rock stars who sing Tom Jo nes' "Delilah" looking like a decadently deranged schoolboy in holey rugby shirt? Or the same fellow in flasher's raincoat and Richard Helm's hat, singing "Vambo to the Rescue" on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. But I diverge. Listen to his best album "Next: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band". Title include "The Last of the Teenage Idols," "Gang Bang" and "The Faith Healer." My sister took...
...Despite late rains in this immensely prolific area, quality and color are notable. Some excellent Côtes du Rhônes have been selling in the U.S. at about $3 a bottle. Most wines from the area, including the renowned Châteauneuf-du-Pape, are now likely to rise at least 25%. They should be ready to enjoy in two years...
Haunting Presence. As a result, the three networks and two wire services gave up competitive vote counting and formed NES as a nonprofit cooperative under the direction of Associated Press Newsman J. Richard Eimers. By the fall of 1964 Eimers had organized a network of thousands of poll "reporters," plus an election-night headquarters staff of hundreds of students and technicians. Today he still directs the system, haunting each election-night performance with his demanding presence...
...bring in the New York primary vote last week, NES had an army of 350 temporary headquarters workers and 75 police telephone operators (by law, only police can tally New York City vote counts directly from the polls), plus 57 county reporters who phoned in the upstate election results. More than half the ballots were tabulated by 11 p.m., and by midnight 77% of the vote was in. "It's a first-class operation," says CBS's Warren Mitofsky, who heads that network's national-election unit. "NES was probably the only organization in New York State...