Word: pleasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named because he's so long and thin, is a superb guitarist who plays all kinds of folk and acoustic blues. He's a local boy who got his start here and has been away of late. It should be a good show; Spider John is a real crowd-pleaser. Through Sunday...
Bill Carey has become a crowd-pleaser, and Saturday night in the IAB he showed some of the reasons why. Carey, a 6-ft. 5-in. sophomore forward, dropped in 13 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and sparked the Crimson five to a 59-53 win over Yale...
...slight sluggishness, caused not by the tempo but by the attacks, which were not quite sharp, or quite clean. A pizzicato effect, in the second movement, was missing. The French horns and bassoons were excellent, and the symphony--like most well-known pieces--was a definite crowd-pleaser. One departure from the strictly traditional was the use of only one bass. Most orchestras the Bach society's size would have at least 3 or 4 double basses. Yet the use of only one was quite pleasant, giving the orchestra a buoyant sound...
...average, he belonged on the Long Island beaches instead of in the dugout. Anderson lied when he answered, "I'm not here to see that particular people get in the game. I am here to beat the other team." Mays was added to the squad as a fan-pleaser by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
...bear-hugging the minister-president of North Rhine Westphalia, Heinz Kiihn, and talking to Brandt's diminutive foreign policy adviser Egon Bahr with both hands on his shoulders. Brezhnev grinned and waved at crowds so relentlessly, in fact, that his grandstanding seemed to nettle Brandt-no mean crowd pleaser himself when in the right mood. Once, as Brezhnev stopped to shake hands with photographers, the Chancellor muttered to an aide, "I guess I'll have to start playing this game...