Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoping to drum up some interest in her current swing through Australia, Aging Trouper Marlene Dietrich, 73, promised her tour promoter, Cyril Smith, to step out of character and hold her first interview in three years. Trouble was, the singer banned photographers and TV cameramen from the Sydney press conference, and Dietrich's representatives handed out a list of two dozen questions that newsmen should avoid asking. Samples: How many grandchildren do you have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke...
...River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song's build up to Springsteen's slashing, cymbal-crashing guitar chords...
...insignificant 3% for an American Independent Party candidate. Organizationally, Durkin did so with an efficient, labor-supported, get-out-the-vote drive. On the issues, he tied Wyman to past and current Republican Party policies in Washington, a strategy that was actually aided by President Ford's campaign swing in New Hampshire on behalf of Wyman. Durkin hammered away at the high cost of heating oil, gasoline and electricity, and forecast more increases under Ford's policy of decontrolling domestic oil. That tack was effective in New Hampshire, which has been hit unusually hard by heating and electricity...
Rice was priceless when he played. He didn't have the picture-perfect and fluid swing of Lynn, to whom he was always compared. Instead his powerful wrists carved the bat around, hard, and caught it for an instant before bringing it back, hard. He swung it like a scythe, and once I watched him connect full force and hit the ball up and over the flagpole in deep center, still going up at the 400-foot mark...
...start with Dwight Evans preserved at right field. Cooper on first and Yaz at left--no more problem of dumping the designated hitter. But (sigh) manager Darrell Johnson will probably start Carbo or something... And, uh, Rice wasn't hitting so well in the past week anyway--chopping his swing and neutralizing his power. Hah. It's very depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while...