Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic). New Wave rock, smart, tough and, make no mistake, dangerous...
Rock Critic Robert Palmer has supplied a fleet, smart text for the book, but Baby, That Was Rock & Roll is made up mostly of lyrics (terrific) and old photos (family-scrapbook evocative). Mike Stoller's wonderful music is necessarily shortchanged in print. Its influences can be traced-boogie, R&B, smatterings of Latin rhythm and Broadway melody -but the magic remains in the grooves. Best thing to do while looking through this book is put on some Elvis and some Coasters...
...then HA! is supported handsomely by fat merchandising contracts with such outfits as Fisher-Price Toys and Hallmark Cards, Inc. Muppet faces appear on coffee mugs, T shirts, yo-yos, playing cards, pillowcases and anything else that will take an imprint. Henson is good at big money deals and smart enough not to boast about them. "It's important to me that the audience doesn't think of us in terms of figures," he says. "I don't want people looking at the Muppets and thinking, 'How much are they worth?' It's just not us. It could be destructive...
...American people had soured on costly government . . ." [Nov. 20]. Right on! TIME could have gone further. We are tired of costly government that gives us less and less. I resent, however, your saying in a "quirky mood," the voters turned conservative. A more accurate statement: the voters got smart and turned conservative...
Tunney retired undefeated, the only modern heavyweight champion besides Rocky Marciano smart enough to quit at the top, and settled into a successful business career. He lived quietly with his wife Polly Lauder and four children in Greenwich, Conn. In 1971 the fighter's son, John, became U.S. Senator from California. As time went by, Tunney came to be friends with Dempsey. The old foes were thought of together, two men joined by their past. When Tunney's death was reported, Dempsey's wife Deanna said of her ailing husband, "He is taking it very badly. You must remember Gene...