Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rain," in which Don Henly, Glen Frey, and J.D. Souther sing background vocals. As a result this ballad sounds very much like an Eagles tune, except that raspy-voiced Newman sings the lead and the lyrics sound like they were written from a rhyming dictionary, with little regard for meaning...
...expanding country it describes. Fast's prose is clean; his sentences are short; the pages are dense with human drama. His characters are carefully developed, realistic because they are unconscious of their roles in history. The Immigrants draws the reader into its drama, leads him to read without regard for real time, and intoxicates him with the life of a past...
Five turnovers--four fumble recoveries and a Halas interception--helped in this regard. Three of the fumbles can be attributed to Baggott, who led the team in both recoveries (seven) and interceptions (four) a year ago and who must make more out of turnovers than the owner of Rowinsky...
...SALT I was reactivated. Thus, while U.S. and Soviet SALT delegations have been meeting regularly in Geneva to discuss secondary issues (like methods of verifying compliance with a treaty), exchanges on key points have taken place in Washington, with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin as the intermediary. (Some U.S. officials regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon...
...reader is always aware of the author's presence, but for the most part he is an engaging companion, an outsider allowed fleetingly on the inside of a closed world, and unabashed in love with it. Unfortunately, enthusiasm can on occasion become condescension, most annoyingly with regard to the female dancers ("she's so sweet you could sip her through a straw"), but such lapses of taste are rare. More often, Mazo brings fragments of the life sharply into focus with his knack for daring imagery ("feet flash out and back like darting fish"), and what could have been either...