Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Icing & Crash Pad. These two hits-as well as more recent successes such as Paper Cup and Wichita Lineman-reveal Webb's gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what...
...apparent effort to cut Kennedy's expected plurality, McCarthy lashed into the New York Senator for the first time Friday evening in an suburban Indianapolis speech. He attacked Kennedy for misrepresenting his Congressional voting and attendance records, called on him to reveal his controversial Indiana primary expenditures, and challenged him to debate late Saturday afternoon on Main Street in Scottsbluff...
...graceful and superbly controlled, reveal an informed intelligence that can plunge unafraid into the rip currents of Vladimir Nabokov or write a better analysis of the nature of parody than the very good one that appeared as preface to the anthology he was reviewing. And it is somehow endearing to know that the same hand that wrote The New Yorker's sane, knowledgeable review of James Joyce's recently discovered fragment Giacomo Joyce, also turned out the epic 1960 farewell to Ted Williams, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...much as possible about its fourlegged customers and their masters. Attempts to persuade the Census Bureau to include the pet population in its statistics have so far failed, but by industry estimates the U.S. has 25 million dogs, 20 million cats and 30 million pet-owning families. Surveys reveal that a family owning a dog or cat has an income of $8,000 or more and is itself consuming increasing amounts of prepared food-which means fewer scraps to feed pet appetites...
...legality of the war set aside, the Spock case seems certain to raise fundamental questions of free speech and the limits of dissent. Last week's hearings, in theory, dealt only with several defense motions to dismiss the indictment as too vague, or to force the government to reveal more facts about its charges of conspiracy. In arguing the motions, however, the five's lawyers rehearsed a powerful defense based on the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech...