Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only took three or four of the opening crashing chords to humble Pabst. Supposedly, Pabst spun around in amazement, and then jumped off the podium to stare incredulously Horowitz's hands. At the end, the house rose, screaming hysterically. The leading critic wrote that "not since Hamburg discovered Caruso has there been anything like this...
...Yorkers, meanwhile, are having to do without Blue. The last show featured a demonstration of a product called "candy pants," in which a woman chewed part of the spun-sugar underpants off a man who was wearing them. Congress or the courts will have to decide whether or not that sort of thing can be allowed within the context of the FCC's goal of "opening new outlets for local expression [and] the promotion of diversity in television" and, if it cannot, who is to be held responsible...
...walk on water. While Maryland's All-American defenseman Mike Farrell was occupied with the galloping McEneaney--who is one part leprechaun, one part thug and one part colt--French befuddled the rest of the Terrapins. His first goal combined strength, speed and finesse. French drove into his defender, spun away to the outside and played "Now you see it, now you don't" with goalie Jake Reed. The Canadian was just as smooth in his passing; Cornell got its tying goal in regulation with a French behind the back over the shoulder assist to midfielder Bill Marino. The third...
...looked smashing, and as Steve's blood pressure climbed, so did the show's ratings. Explains willowy Lindsay Wagner, who plays Jaime: "Viewers tuned in to see whether passion could flow between two people who were part Timex." So many did so, in fact, that Jaime was spun out of Steve's life for a series...
When Olympic Skater Dorothy Hamill leaped and spun to her gold medal on the ice at Innsbruck, many female television viewers were as fascinated by her head as by her legs. What captivated the women was Hamill's perky hairdo, which flowed gracefully with every jump and then miraculously fell back into place. Ever since, hairdressers across the nation have been besieged with requests for the "Hamill Look" or the "Dorothy...