Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really had nothing to bitch about. I'd missed most of the game, sitting in my living room, beer and cigars, the Pointer Sisters rolling out of the stereo, and my nth game of solitaire in full swing. I'd spent my Sunday dilettanting my way around the dial. By 6:30 I'd seen two quarters of football and six innings of baseball on Channel 4, as well as four of Harold Jackson's TD's on Channel...
...first SR/ World pulled in $200,000. But SR/ World expenses are also up, and advertisers seem wary of the new product; the current issue carries only 20 pages of ads (compared with 46 for the inaugural appearance). Magazine spokesmen say ad sales are now on the up swing. If advertisers support the venture and the initial editorial quality is sustained, the old SR trademark-a phoenix rising from its own ashes-will be more appropriate than ever...
...step-forward, two-steps-back shuffle was in full swing among New York environmentalists this week. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference moved its legal and publicity battles against a proposed power project ahead as planned, while Harvard appeared ready to push back with devastating force...
...create a few legends for the forefathers of country music. His album of Jimmie Rodgers songs ("California Blues", "Carolina Sunshine Girl", "Frankie and Johnny", "Peachpickin' Time in Georgia") is the finest album in the field for years. He learned to play the fiddle so he could revive the "Western Swing" of an old group called Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He recently released something with a strong "honky-tonk" influence. All these albums are tarnished only by Haggard's habit of throwing in embarassing bits of wistful prose as "tributes" to whomever he is honoring...
Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...