Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French coast, some ropes and some wooden props held in a V-shape give us the rigging and bow of a rolling and creaking ship. The instant the words proceed to the king's 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' the wooden structures turn into a quartet of ladders to enable the soldiers to scale the wall of Harfleur...
...limousine now belongs to J. D. Southern--a member of the Stamps Quartet that backed Elvis for so many years--and one of the King's closest friends. "Elvis gave him a bunch of rings and coats and things," Gadlock says. "And this car too. This is the very car J.D. drove in the funeral procession...
...woman played a bass fiddle and an electric dulcimer. In the entry of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a man picked a guitar and hummed blues on a harmonica. In front of Out of Town News, a juggler spun three balls and told bad jokes. A string quartet sat in the entrance at the Coop and sawed at classical tunes. Little knots of people gathered around each performance, and those walking the block-long stretch moved slowly through, leaving one show and attaching themselves to the crowd at the next, walking from one sound into another. Many of the onlookers could...
Over broiled steak for three, and a hamburger for Dole, the quartet got down to business. Dole ran down the items that must be decided: size of the overall revenue cut, number of years over which the cuts should be spread, proposals for more rapid depreciation of plant and equipment for business, reduction of the "marriage penalty" against working couples. Long, a master of backroom consensus on tax bills, noted that there was already a general agreement on many of these items in the Senate committee. "Bob Dole and I are on the same track," he said to the House...
...S.D.P. has no single leader; instead it has a quartet consisting of Williams, Owen, and former senior Laborites William Rodgers, 52, and Roy Jenkins, 60. Unlike Labor and the Tories, the S.D.P. has no established grass-roots organization or detailed policies. Last week it announced a vague list of "twelve tasks," including a commitment to flexible wage and price controls, a mixed economy and nuclear defense. The S.D.P. leaders hope to capitalize on their early momentum and have budgeted $385,000 for a major media blitz. Their immediate aim is to swell the party's rolls-and coffers...