Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hartford lawyer who entered the race only nine weeks ago. Although DiFazio has no chance of winning, he has substantial financial backing from the New Right and might siphon off votes from Weicker. With Weicker leading Moffett by only a few points in the polls, even a small swing to DiFazio could affect the outcome...
...Kohl took office, he said he intended to head "a government of the middle ground." The main challenge he faces between now and March will be to keep to that course. If he fails, the risk is that the Greens may replace his minority partner Free Democrats as the swing party in the promised elections. If that happens, West Germany, already involved in what one veteran diplomat in Bonn calls "a period of unprecedented political, economic and emotional turmoil," could face even worse upheaval. -By George Russell...
Lloyd Webber's task was to find a musical vocabulary that parallels Eliot's individual profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...
Opponents in the studio audience hurled eggs at the stage, and one man took a swing at Wilkinson. Some of the demonstrators chanted "Astans, Latins, black and white, all together we must fight" and unfurled "death to the Klan" signs...
...hounded him for years--Jackson has shown a depth and diversity of musical talent. He has experimented with old forms and concocted new ones. He marked his departure from pure New Wave with products like the reggae-in-spired Beat Crazy and Jumpin' Jive, a collection of '40s-style swing tunes. While bands like The Clash continue to scream and bang their ideas into their music, Jackson has gradually found mellower and musically richer ideas to get his message across...