Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer considered to be a form of punishment as applied to women. A liberal constituency no longer finds work unattractive." Thus liberals might go along with the traditional conservative position that able-bodied welfare recipients of either sex should work for their money. In that case, the basically sound Carter program has a reasonable chance of passage...
...aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago. Death toll: nine pilots. Six of the planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga for an audience that included Navy Secretary W. Graham...
...songs moved easily over a variety of country rhythms. The words could be both bittersweet and low on the subjects of loneliness and love: "And there's nothin' short of dyin'/ Half as lonesome as a sound/ On the sleeping city sidewalk;/ Sunday mornin' comin' down." And blunt about sex: "There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions/ So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine...
...successfully as a hot new show on Broadway called, with roaring show-business logic, Beatlemania. Two months after-it began, bereft of plot and without benefit of an official opening night, Beatlemania is playing nightly to packed houses. The stars of the show are four Beatles look-and sound-alikes, who during the evening play and sing 29 Beatles songs. Meanwhile, on a series of scrims and screens, with help from running printout headlines, newsreel clips and still blowups, Beatlemania fleetingly invokes some turbulent events and fateful people from the 1960s...
...Audience. As the show builds, the satire does not seem as heavy-handed as it might sound, especially to the young audience that know the music and lyrics by heart, and know too that frivolous or not, both are profoundly linked to their whole memory of a time when the times were out of joint -and the young were into joints...