Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worn through one copy of Hot Rocks and had the 1972 American tour promo poster on your bedroom door. You got the wimpy kid to call you Mick, and you learned to pout like Charlie Watts as you tapped out the beat to "Jumping Jack Flash" on your plastic pencil case. This was the only music you needed...
...lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...
Soon someone will finish telling the story that Chaney and Cieply only sketch out in pencil, and it will be one of the great tales of the American Scuffle. It will have everything the success, the swagger, the rootlessness, and the closeted passions...
...didn't even have a baton," she laughs, explaining that she conducted instead with a pencil. "Maybe that endeared me to them," she says. She hastens to add that she will be receiving a real conductor's baton for her next birthday...
...Rather will be sitting at Cronkite's old desk next week, but restlessly. He doesn't like the word anchorman, and sees himself more as "a lead correspondent. I want to grab a pencil and get out of the office. I do not intend to be an inside man." But until Rather has shown that he can hold on to Cronkite's audience, CBS wants him at that familiar desk...