Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slump is over," crows Tandy Chairman John Roach. Indeed, Roach and his computer-industry rivals have reason to feel a sudden rush of confidence. After being relatively cool to personal computers for three years, customers are snapping them up faster than a high-speed printer spews out sprocketed paper...
...made a record, and everyone bought it. Then you went on tour, and everyone lined up for tickets. That was all any of us knew about the music business, and that included the people who ran the business." The speaker is Tom Rush, a folk singer, acoustic-guitar operator and onetime rambling man with some mileage on him. Just now, like other New Hampshiremen in Mud Season, he feels entitled to be a touch grouchy. There was plenty of snow for cross- country skiing this winter on the logging roads around his big hillside house, but the maple-syrup season...
...Rush, a lean, easy-moving, mustached fellow of 46, got his start as a folkie in Cambridge, Mass., when he was a sophomore at Harvard. Joan Baez was beginning to make a name in Cambridge then, and both of them played at a folk hangout called Club...
That was in 1961, near the beginning of what those who know all the verses to Freight Train now call, with the rueful irony of survivors, the "great folk-music scare of the '60s." For the rest of the decade and part of the '70s too, Rush spent most of his time on the road, as he recalls now, playing concerts and club gigs, getting a lavender tan from stage lights, finding his moments of repose watching the mysterious turning, turning of airport carrousels, living a life that made more money than sense. A song he wrote in those cockerel...
...Colombo hurried along Gasworks Street toward the bus station. Some passengers dawdled for a moment before boarding, to sip pineapple juice or buy a bag of plantains from one of the many kiosks. For some, that decision proved fatal. The explosion came at the very height of the rush hour, ripping through the open- air depot and setting buses ablaze. Those who were not killed instantly were stunned, deafened or knocked unconscious by the blast. "People were running and screaming all around me," said B.D. Premadasa, a government worker, "and two were burning inside a bus." The dying tripped over...