Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDDIE HARRIS, PLUG ME IN (Atlantic). An electric tenor saxophone? The idea may offend jazz purists, but rock fans will get a charge out of this easygoing soul session. With capable backing from such musicians as Jimmy Owens and Joe Newman, Harris uses his extra go-power to create warmth and depth. The set gets off to a rolling, sinew-stretching start on Live Right Now, a down-home boogaloo. Harris plays with heavy-throated gentleness on the bluesy Ballad (For My Love), and with a dulcet, flowing tone on Winter Meeting. There's just a bit of metallic...
George Wallace got a plug last week from a surprising source. Said Cassius Clay: "I admire the man. He tells the truth, and he don't beat around the bush. Besides, he would unite Negroes." So many other folks go all the way for George that London bookmakers last week shortened the odds against his winning from...
ADAM 12 (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Jack Webb, of Dragnet fame, puts in another plug for the Los Angeles Police Department as producer of a series about two uniformed cops. Martin Milner and Kent McCord are the stars. Premiere...
...department, Trudeau plans no startling innovations for the new parliamentary session. More important in the long run to Canadians is Trudeau's commitment to constitutional reform, by which he hopes to give Canadians a bill of rights and reapportion the powers between federal and provincial governments. Promising to "plug the people into the decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia, or a blind faith in the prejudices...
...Four-Way Plug-In. The Beatles, as Paul has been warning recently, "are not the four moptops any more." They are four iconoclastic, brass-hard, post-Christian, pragmatic realists. Some of this does break through Davies' skein of anecdotes. So does the curious relation among the Beatles. Film Director Richard Lester once described it as "the four-way multiple plug-in personality," in which each one is only a phase of a larger unit that has far more reality for them than any other human relationship they know...