Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time display of partisan maneuvering. The Nixon sup porters sought to delay a final vote, hoping to discredit and dis courage the majority, perhaps even win back one or two of their strayed Republicans. Since the loyalists were demanding facts, many Democrats used their turn at the microphones to spin out the litany, as they saw it, of Nixon's misdeeds. Most able of all at this was California's Waldie, whose sporadic running narrative was dismissed by Republican Wiggins as "Waldie's fable...
...proof of the new unity among jazz, rock, the blues, soul, even the pop song. A single event at the Roseland Ballroom, for example, will offer both the sophisticated big-band arrangements of Harry James and the Latin style of Tito Puente. At Carnegie Hall, Pianist Keith Jarrett will spin forth some of the most elegant, technically proficient, classically tinted jazz since Art Tatum. On another night, Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton and Pianist Teddy Wilson will mix it up with Drummer Buddy Rich and Bassist Milt Hinton in what should be a vital remembrance of the swing...
...Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently to the music (perhaps taking downers), then suddenly (probably after swilling a bottle of wine), sway ecstatically forward toward the performers...
...lange of show business careers followed, some of them successful. Dale cut a few records, but "after a while that got boring." He followed with a six-month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will...
...section has had great success. In 1967 Lazard Partner Stanley De J. Osborne arranged the merger with McDonnell Aircraft that kept Douglas Aircraft from going under; later, Partner Howard S. Kniffin helped Boise Cascade spin off a number of enterprises in mobile homes and chemicals that were doing little for it but lose money. Meyer, still active at 75, last week headed off a threatened proxy fight at the Signal Cos. (shipping, Mack trucks, radio stations, the California Angels baseball team) by getting an Italian investment group to buy a major interest...