Word: popgunned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest range of tone color afforded by conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...
Though businessmen are primarily nervous about the prospective budget deficits, the real danger is the cost-boosting impact of the energy program. In fact, the quibbles over the size and distribution of tax cuts are popgun shots in comparison with the cannonade of criticism that Ford's energy proposals have provoked. The tax on oil will be particularly inflationary in the chilly Northeast, which burns a considerable amount of oil, much of it imported. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis calls the tax "disastrous." Adds James Howell, the chief economist of the First National Bank of Boston: "We in New England...
...vision of the press-as-cannon became press-as-popgun when "the national interest" was involved. Invocation of the phrase could limit his criticism of the government's Vietnam policy. And he knew of the U-2 flights a year before one of the planes was shot down, but his view of "the national interest" prevented him from printing what he knew...
...Vance was a leftover World War II DE with popgun armament and an arthritic engine room, decked out as a DER (Destroyer Escort, Radar) and dispatched to help keep track of junks along the Viet Nam coast. Arnheiter, who became her new skipper at Christmas time 1966, was another sort of updated archaism. Machinery bored and confused him. He flunked out of West Point before squeaking into-and through-Annapolis. But he was a champion debater and his head was stuffed with nautical heroes and hero worship, as well as fine sea-fighting phrases ("Seek out, engage, destroy...
...When the rest of the orchestra said "Bleep," the violins joined in. When they were required to do fey finger snaps over their heads, they complied. When asked to belch, literally, they drew the line and said "Blurp." When Percussionist William Kraft, dutifully following the score, fired a popgun, they played on unblinking. Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits," like Lumpy Gravy, Duke of Prunes and Who Needs the Peace Corps. Then, everyone in the orchestra suddenly screamed, one final frightening chord was heard, and with a giant...