Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins with his older stuff, "Ziggy Stardust" and songs from that album like "Five Years," leaving on the rock riffs and self-consciously-confused lyrics. The sound quality will strike fans of the vinyl Bowie as poor; his lushly-produced effects get stripped down to what a seven-man band can handle on stage. Bowie's vocal machinations, so clever and startling out of the studio, lose some of their sparkle when forced to follow one another in sequence. The side has a nightclub feel, like a good band at Jack's going through some of Bowie's old hits...
Walking around the Physics lab table to a non-black peer to strike up discourse about an experimental method or to give advice or seek advice about a troublesome theorem...
Murdoch was discreetly silent about his motives last week, but there was no shortage of taproom psychoanalysis about why he went his own way. It had been said that he would make permanent the New York Daily Metro, a strike paper he financed, then fold the Post and go after the morning markets controlled by the Times and the News. Yet the Metro died the day the Post resumed publishing. Still, Murdoch men are not ruling out a future morning tabloid, probably along the lines of his spicy and sensational London Sun. It was also said that Murdoch rushed into...
Grand and nefarious schemes aside, one of Murdoch's most powerful incentives for settling early is the galleys upon galleys of Columbus Day advertising that the Post carried in its first post-strike" editions-so many ads, that over the weekend the Post emerged with its first Sunday edition, which may become a fixture when all the city's presses are rolling again...
...THIEF'S new wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...