Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Note bennie: Tom Rush is down from New Hampshire's hills for his thrice annually concert and rave-up, this time with a new band. He's still singing other people's songs though. Go see him, he needs the work. If you saw and loved the Pointer Sisters, you may want to know that the Coop is sold out of their album...
...hitter who missed a lot. He played a wild game, laying it all on the line on every shot, high on a devil's dare. Down 6-5 and receiving in the third set he would hit out and go for winners. And on match point he'd rush the net on a straight line and curve short to crosscourt an underspin backhand off his toes. He spiced up his play with plenty of theatrics on the side--yelling, swearing, screaming red-faced, slamming balls into the net and over the fence. He smashed several rackets a season...
...just as evil, but he controlled it better. He didn't explode, he boiled. And so did his game. He played to a tempo, tuning it, gaging it, then throwing it out of kilter to come in for the big one. He was a heavy hitter who didn't rush his points, or throw-away shots with chancy acrobatics. He played like a wolf stalking his prey, always the challenged, never the challenger. And he was 17 before anyone his age really could put up that challenge...
...sleeping bag wedged in between thousands of white or yellow Port-O-Sans. Others, undaunted at the prospect of stepping on perhaps fifty heads in the last eight hundred yards to the stage, pressed on toward the dull glowing red stage lights. Land was gold and there was a rush but the only claim you could stake was with your body. As they were stepped on, sleepers yelled out that there was no more room up front. Weren't they leaning up against one another a hundred yards from the stage? Of course there was room, there was always room...
Despite predictions of a bumper crop, export controls will stay in place until the fall to prevent a rush by foreigners to buy U.S. farm goods at bargain prices with undervalued American dollars...