Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group for two hours in his rambling, high-ceilinged statehouse in Dar es Salaam. He used his ivory-tipped chiefs staff as a stage prop, sometimes rapping it for attention, at other times pointing it at his listeners like a machinegun. Asked if he thought American business should pull out of South Africa or stay and try to help the blacks, he lifted his voice like a preacher: "Out, out, I tell you, leave that blessed land," a view directly opposite that expressed by black leaders in Johannesburg...
...folkie voice and Greg "Fingers" Taylor's wailing harmonica equals shrimpboat rock. Buffett bottled it quick before it fizzed, and the music hasn't changed much over the six albums in the last five years. Buffett's chartbusting last year was the result mainly of promotional considerations and the pull of a big-name producer, Norbert Putnam, who used to ride herd on Kris Kristofferson. Changes In Latitudes sured wasn't a new style--the best song on the album, "In The Shelter," was written six years...
Barnes is amongst the handful or individuals whose stories counteract the sagas of others who babble on in Gornickese about "moral adventures" and the "pull of connectedness...
...Crimson now has two weeks in which to hone its technique before facing Syracuse away on April 15. In New York they will be trying to pull their annual trick of turning history upside down--sending the Orangemen fleeing like the Orangemen sent James...
...ship's captain-who was charged with negligent polluting by the French-may have delayed enlisting the help of a nearby tug or sending off a distress signal. When a rescue was finally attempted, the sea and winds were so heavy that even the powerful tug could not pull the disabled giant back into the shipping lanes. One immediate result of the spill: a new determination by the French to keep closer tab on the increasingly heavy flow of oil traffic off their shores...