Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foghat/Trower/Montrose. Get ready to get up just to get down with a sound guaranteed to tickle the tympanic membrane. Though perhaps not rock-and-roll at its best, the Orpheum has put together a triple bill that promises at least rock-and-roll at its loudest. Whether it be the hard-driving English blues of Foghat or the energized rock-and-roll of Montrose (led by former Edgar Winter, guitarist Ronnie Montrose), the beat is going to be laid down early in the evening and could result in a lot of sore hands. As an added attraction, ex-Procol Harum...
...THOSE white middle-class types whose adolescence coincided roughly with the sixties, rock and roll was the single most valid cultural form. Rock provided not only the fullest expression of our unspoken feelings, but also a powerful vanguard signpost which influenced the ethics and aspirations of our lives. Admittedly the directions in which it took us--deeper into machismo, for instance--were not always so progressive; but the basic animal energy of the music represented a liberation from the boredom and dry repressiveness of our upbringing...
Despite yesterday's rain, a heavy voter turnout estimated to be between 70 and 80 per cent helped Dukakis roll up a surprisingly large margin over Sargent returning the governorship to the democrats for the first time in a decade...
Submitted by Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, the Nature article emphasized experiments at the Stanford Research Institute involving the controversial Israeli psychic and nightclub magician Uri Geller (TIME, March 14, 1973). Among other things, the report claimed that Geller correctly called the roll of a die inside a steel box eight out of ten times; on the other two rolls he declined to pick a number. The odds against his performing that feat by chance, Targ and Puthoff calculated, were about a million to one. Geller was also reported to have sketched remarkably accurate versions of drawings picked...
Sissela Bok, handing out slightly stale Tootsie Roll Pops, smiled apologetically and explained that though her husband "tries never to miss a Halloween," he had been tied up at a dinner meeting...