Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fairbank, in the question-and-answer period, appeared to agree with the thrust of this new argument. He derided "the general models that usually involve the whole world" and put in a "plug" for the study of limited geographical areas...
...week all summer. That led eventually to ownership of a drugstore in the black ghetto of Washington, D.C., where he took on a line of phonograph records and soon began to produce them. He helped to develop the now illegal "payola" system of bribing radio stations to plug his records, and in the 1950s, he launched concert tours with artists like Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole and Fats Domino. "I was the first one to say," he claims, that "the big bands were going to die and be replaced by rhythm and blues." Feld's talent discoveries included Errol...
...eliminate lead we more than double spark plug life. When the spark plug misfires, it tremendously increases the amount of hydro-carbons that go out into the atmosphere...
...Bobby Hull, Chicago's blond bomber, and Howe, Detroit's Mr. Everything. In the other Eastern semifinal, the revitalized Rangers were paired against Boston's Bruins, led by Bobby Orr-the first defenseman ever to win the league scoring title. But New York had a spark-plug defenseman of its own in young All-Star Brad Park. While Park was out with a broken ankle, the Rangers lost 10 of 16 games; his return in the final week was vital to the team's success...
...openly allegorical. Briefly stated, I suppose it's something like this: the foundation for collaboration with evil is to be found in the apparently meaningless capitulations we make in everyday life. But Report is better than allegory; unlike all those Profound Question-obsessed Bergman films you can't just plug in a simple meaning for each of the characters and explain the film away. The reason for this lies in the sinister, stark quality of Nemec's style, his refusal to locate any action with an establishing shot or relax the rigorous, inexorable pacing of his cutting-the most mundane...