Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas-based business-school dean flew into Washington to take on a new job. He became the U.S. price czar. C. (for Charles) Jackson Grayson Jr. found that the seven-member Price Commission he was to head had no staff, no permanent office and no secretaries; he had to ring up the Civil Service Commission in Washington to ask how to go about hiring. It was a situation suited to the take-charge spirit of 48-year-old Jack Grayson, who constantly advises associates that "someone has to make it happen." If Phase 11 so far has a hero...
Uneasy Neighbors. Within 15 minutes after the Greenawalts settled down together to watch the show on their home set, their phone began to ring with crank calls. By the next day they had logged 100 whisperers, screamers and name callers. On the third day the hate mail began to come in. "Watch out for your kids," warned one letter...
...water of life" into a lilting modern folk ballad, and it is plain to see that young Bob Zimmerman knew what he was doing when he changed his name to Bob Dylan. Influenced as he was by this evocative heritage, the revival of Thomas's dramatic scheme can still ring true for the present generation. Often more lyric verse than drama, a performance of Under Milk Wood tickles the fancy and intoxicates the cars with continual pranks on the English language and hilarious word imagery...
...production begins with the nine actors arranged on the floor moaning in singsong. They slowly rise to form a ring, and suddenly they are touching their toes and doing jumping jacks. The lights are cut, and a dramatic transition is made from leaping confusion to Beckett's stark play. Come and Go is eventually repeated three times, giving each actor a chance to play one of the three characters, every repetition involving more members of the cast...
...throw a soft light on the blues tradition. It is a highly personal, non-systematic work by a true believer. Author Peter Guralnick shuns the "definitive history" approach in favor of a semi-autobiographical study of his heroes. He is selling his enthusiasm and his credibility, both of which ring true...