Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hound Dog and the Houserockers played a devastating concert at Winthrop House, under the benevolent auspices of the Boston Blues Society. Which I, in turn, missed. Because I had a date. Which was lousy. But Hound Dog plays a rare form of blues, one designed primarily for dancing. In spite of that preference, Hound Dog has managed to construct a respectable following, in Chicago, as well as on this coast, and is one of the more frequently mentioned "bluesmen's bluesman." He plays a $29.95 El Cheapo Sears Electric Guitar, and runs a band with no bassist, just a second...
...considerable artistic merit--Rosemary's Baby. This film, which made real a universe in which the power and ultimate triumph of evil are inevitable, did more than any five other factors to fuel the cult of Satanism with its growing roll of ritual murders and assorted social pathologies. In spite of (or, in a real sense, because of) its great artistic merit, it would have been better had this film never been shown to general audiences. The leftist British writer, Pamela Hansford Johnson, came to a similar conclusion about the writings of the Marquis de Sade after her study...
...very first plane that landed at Clark Air Base, it turned out, carried two American prisoners whom fellow POWs hope to bring to trial. Correspondent Seymour Hersh reported in the New York Times that the men had been condemned by other prisoners for making antiwar statements in spite of orders to the contrary U.S. officials confirmed Hersh's report but stressed that they hoped the charges would be dropped...
...real loser will be the public interest. "There are two sources in Boston that are definitely no longer available to us," says Gerard O'Neill, editor of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative team. "They've helped us before, but since the Caldwell decision, in spite of all our blandishments, they won't even talk to us on collateral subjects." Globe Assistant Managing Editor Timothy Leland thinks an upcoming investigative series could land six Globe editors and the publisher in jail if a grand jury decides to subpoena. "We spelled this...
...spite of the team's bad record this season, Lackey described his feelings about the year in general as being "on the light side...