Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Council which would almost certainly have otherwise resulted; consequently, rent control is probably safe and Jim Sullivan will likely stay on as City Manager. Finally, several hundred "excess" liberal votes (a far cry from 1973) helped elect AI Vellucci, an outcome which will not be lost on that "swing" Councillor...
...last year, the defense model needs to be rebuilt. Harvard lost three starters--Eddie Rossi, Steve Janicek, and Larry Pitaelli--leaving only Todd Nieland and swing-man Jon Schuster...
...finally sees. Take the time she gave Beverly Sills the bird. In Barber, Sills portrayed the young and lovely Rosina, who is being kept a virtual prisoner by her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Caldwell first had the notion that Rosina's room should be a bird cage, complete with swing. Then to underline the metaphor, Caldwell decided that Rosina should carry a small song bird in a miniature cage. And so, one afternoon Sills found herself in a shop on New York's Madison Avenue looking at rare music boxes...
...worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and an a cappella "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -- very competent, sort of boring. She also sang "Diamonds and Rust" from her new album which is explicitly about Dylan and pretty bitter: "If you're offering me diamonds and rust/ I've already paid...
...slate, said recently that even in its present small numbers the student vote has to be considered by candidates for office. "Elections are always very, very close and even a few hundred votes will make a tremendous difference." In past elections, the city council's crucial fifth seat (the swing seat out of nine) has been won or lost by the slight margin of only 30 to 40 votes. If a lot of students were to register Wylie believes it "would shake things up a lot." But, as the Berkeley leftists found out when their radical experiment collapsed, nothing...