Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss American pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, Singin' 'This'll be the day that...
...result of this meeting of the superstars of the control room is that Restrictions is far better than anything Cactus has done to date, yet it falls short of what other groups like the Faces or Humble Pie are doing these days. The album is good; it's just not great. Restrictions' most glaring weakness is a lack of good original material. The album is hopelessly flawed by such inane cuts as "Token Chokin" and "Alaska," with each of the members of the band having a finger in the awful pie...
...song by left-hearted Folk Singer Joan Baez, seems to have been answered by her friend Bob Dylan. The Minnesota-born troubadour, who in recent years abandoned his ballads of protest (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, killed three months ago in an escape attempt at San Quentin prison. Excerpt: "The prison guards they cursed him,/ As they watched him from above./ But they were frightened...
...constituency is composed almost totally of Brattle Steeters, should be open to a little friendly persuasion from fellow Brattle Streeter Ackerman on a lot of issues. They voted together a lot on last year's Council and if he feels that a proposal is practical enough or not a "pie in the sky" fantasy of some crazed liberal's mind, chances are he'll vote for it. The best thing about Mocreiff is that he listens--and that he has no connections with the corruption-tinged "independents...
...details of the Detroit plan have been announced, but the attorneys who brought the original suit favor one scheme that would draw a twelve-mile circle around Detroit and cut it into five to eight zones shaped like slices of a pie. The narrow end of each wedge would be in the center city. Some suburbanites are worried that their children might be bused as far as 16 miles to a downtown school. The answer of one city administrator is that "after all, suburbanites with inner-city jobs drive this far every day and they don't think anything about...