Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three of the biggest U.S. electronics manufacturers decided this year to enter the lucrative market for what the song The White Knight described as "that Japanese toy, that trucker's joy." Most 1976 American cars can be bought with the sets installed; nearly half of all trucks in the U.S. are CB-equipped. The cost is relatively low-from about $90 to $350 for a serviceable set and antenna-and CB is simple to install in a truck, car or boat, drawing its power from the vehicle's battery. The same units can be plugged in at home...
...outwit conservation officers. Though the California department of fish and game frequently changes its code, admits one officer, "poachers seem to know what we're doing before we do." Prostitutes ("pavement princesses") who plug their charms on CB have become so common that there is even a song about them, Rosie on the Ridge...
...thing which will undoubtedly suffer from neglect in Moshell's absence is the concerto--a musical genre which demands both quantity and quality of players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
Finale. Black CAST presents a coffee house with vignettes from past productions (My Sister, My Sister, The Blacks, and Theme for Linda), poetry, jazz and song. Refreshments. I'm not really sure why this goes in the theater listings, but it seems to me as good a place for it as any. The CAST productions have all been good, and I don't see why this shouldn't be. In the Lowell House dining room, May 8 at 8:30 p.m. $1.50 admission...
...best song on the album, however, is "Jaded Lover"; in fact, it is as good as anything Walker has ever done. A thumping, free-wheeling number, it is the cynical parting shot of a man leaving a possessive but fickle lover...