Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holdouts are discovering that silence is golden. Nerves are no longer frazzled by a shrill ring. Importunate creditors and nagging in-laws must resort to the mails. Meals are not interrupted, and TV ball games can be viewed from beginning to end. Two gas stations in town serve as message centers when needed - although communication is no big problem in Hickory Corners (pop. 200). As one resident puts it, "We can yell across town...
Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali must be taking retirement lessons from Frank Sinatra. Less than two months after quitting once again, Ali announced plans for a few more lucrative turns around the ring. Taking a break between rounds of his current project, a movie biography titled The Greatest, Ali engaged in some patented prefight name-calling with Heavyweight Challenger George Foreman. George said he was ready for Muhammad, but the champ wants a match with unbeaten Duane Bobick first. "I am the king of boxing," said Ali. "I do what I like when I like...
...novel's form-pursuit and confrontation-owes much to the conventional thriller. But Cutter and Bone is much more than skillful entertainment. The places and people ring true, from the desperate hedonism of coastal California, "where America kept trying out the future," to the Ozarks heartland, where piety and patriotism barely camouflage a native instinct for violence. Cutter and Bone's own story is charged with a kind of passionate cynicism that makes even grotesques seem likable and, more important, credible right up to the last, startling sentence. Philip Herrera
...Tricks. For the Mozart Requiem, Karajan opted convincingly for a large symphonic approach, sweeping the music along with crisp rhythms and an ingenious succession of tempos. Bruckner's Te Deum has a peculiarly spare, even austere ring; Karajan caught that quality by the simple expedient of exposing all its modal harmonies and laying out its violent cross-rhythms firmly and precisely. Best of all perhaps was the Beethoven Ninth. This was one of those uncommon moments in which the strictest adherence to the letter of the score had a liberating effect. Rarely has the scherzo been taken at such...
Little Sam seals his fate by handing his Sky-Pilot ring to Tyler as a gift. Like the guy in World War II movies who shows wallet photos of his wife to a buddy, he's finished as soon as he gives them something to remember him by. Crawling out of bed while Tyler's involved with Missy, he goes in search of the silvery fish and drowns...