Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows no signs of slowing this breakneck pace. Fit and tanned, he looks ten or twenty years younger than his 72 years. Memories of his varied experiences are precious to him--hence the diaries. "The journals are neither literature nor works of art," he says, "but simply graphic narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make...
...would be unfair to expect any musician to maintain the hot-and-bothered pace of Costello's first two albums, and Armed Forces does have its share of rockers--"Goon Squad" and "Accidents Will Happen" in particular carry on the tradition. But all over the new album there are signs of his evolution towards more versatile music-making. He's always had a touch of the middle-of-the-road about him--he recorded a Burt Bacharach number on a live anthology last year. "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding," a Nick Lowe song which Costello belts...
Everybody is struggling to keep pace with inflation, even the lowly bank robber. That is probably why the number of bank heists has roughly doubled in the past year in Atlanta, Washington and San Francisco. The FBI estimates that more than 4,600 bank robberies took place nationwide in 1978, up from 3,988 in 1977. Says Boris Melnikoff, director of security for the First National Bank of Atlanta, which was knocked over eleven times last year: "We blame it on the economy. We have a product that is very marketable. The professional bandit needs more money to survive...
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...pace of the meet was set when Northeastern's cross country All-American, Bruce Bickford, ran a 4:03.89 mile to nose out Harvard's John Murphy and confirm coach Bill McCurdy's lament that "the close ones weren't going our way." On the brighter side of the race, Murphy, just coming off a bout with tendonitis, notched a personal best at 4:04 flat...