Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice. His solos, "Mathilde" and "Amsterdam," demand the most stamina and brashness of the Brel songs in this show, and McIntosh has plenty of both. In "Amsterdam," a lurid ballad of drunken sailors, he bellows the lines with as much force and volume as anyone would want in the small confines of the Leverett theater, yet manages to make almost every word intelligible...
...Ford, suffering from a combination of financial mismanagement and lack of foresight. Chrysler still has not quite admitted that the Age of the Big Car has ended. This fall, Lee lacocca, chairman of Chrysler, insisted that the auto industry's biggest profits were to be found not in small, but in intermediate-sized luxury cars, loaded with special options...
However, if the public is going to risk a billion-and-a-half on Chrysler. Congress should toughen Carter's proposal, and make granting the aid conditional on a commitment from Chrysler to use the money to retool for production of small, fuel-efficient cars, and also, as Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wis) has advocated, for buses and rail equipment...
WASHINGTON GOV. DIXY LEE RAY is one tough woman. Very early on the morning of October 4--as the haze lifted over Olympia--she was tougher than usual. Standing in front of a small group of reporters, Ray announced that she had shut down the Hanford, Wash., radioactive waste dumping site. A spot check of trucks carrying sludge into the state had revealed serious violations of federal regulations on transporting hazardous materials...
...Church community center is falling apart. There was a fire last year at this outpost of Roslindale's new Greek-American community; the walls are wood where they should be concrete; the concrete is peeling faster than the congregation is repairing. Inside the community center basement there is a small snack shop and about 30 tables covered in light blue grease cloths. The turnout is much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek, and awaiting the candidate. There must be 300 donuts...