Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price's gifts seem, to American ears, peculiarly English, and that may be one reason American ears have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up with a sound that seems to fall between any two stations on your radio dial. You can drift easily along with an aged-in-wood Price ballad like i Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like...
...They seem adrift on a lazy summer outing, but Activists Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem are actually firing some shots across someone else's bow. The two rented a rowboat in New York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women...
...persuaders seem to be making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed before audiences to give them an extra scare. The tactic may have worked. Warner Bros, is being sued by an Indiana teenager who fainted during the movie, breaking his jawbone and several teeth. His lawyer contends that the fleeting death mask is "one of the major issues" in the case...
...last week picked General Motors as its "target" for a strike if an industry contract is not reached by the Sept. 14 deadline. Unlike the four confrontations, all of which ended in strikes, the prebargaining negotiations remained uncharacteristically restrained and calm, and prospects for a no-strike settlement seem reasonable...
...firstly, a charlatan, though rather a brilliant one; secondly, a great charmer; thirdly, frightened of nobody; fourthly, a man with plenty of logic and very few scruples; fifthly, I seem to have no real talent," wrote Sergei Diaghilev to his stepmother in 1895. It was an uncharacteristically harsh, but characteristically penetrating judgment. For two decades, until his death in 1929, Diaghilev's unscrupulous logic and charm dominated the stages of Europe. He founded and directed the Ballets Russes. He was the first to create theatrical spectacles with a mix of dance, painting and music. Under his guidance, Stravinsky...