Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Expecting a monochromatic street punk, the L.A. crowd got a dervish leaping on the tables, all arms and flailing dance steps, and a rock poet as well. In over ten years of playing tank-town dates and rundown discos, Springsteen has mastered the true stage secret of the rock pro: he seems to be letting go totally and fearlessly; yet the performance remains perfectly orchestrated. With his E Street Band, especially Clarence demons' smartly lowdown saxophone, Springsteen can caper and promenade, boogie out into the audience, recite a rambling, funny monologue about girl watching back in Asbury Park...
...changed since the night it was fired in the Ambassador Hotel. The panel found that the inside of the barrel was fouled by a thin layer of copper alloy that probably stemmed from test firings by the Los Angeles police. The panel squeezed off eight shots into a tank of water, compared the bullets with the original three, studied the barrel of Sirhan's gun, and finally gave up. They announced that they could not say for sure that the three bul lets had been fired by Sirhan's gun. Nor, on the other hand, could they rule...
...defense department proudly announced last February that "South Africa is now independent of the rest of the world as far as needs for internal security go." South Africa now produces air-to-air and ground-to-air missile systems locally, and it makes artillery, infantry, anti-aircraft and tank munitions with nearly 100 per cent local materials--all for "internal security...
Before he lets that thing out of the culture tube, someone had better find a way to control it. I have visions of standing by helplessly while it attacks oil tankers and storage depots, home oil heating systems and even my engine oil and gas tank...
...taking on such an enormous and prickly task, the think tank's researchers knew they were rushing in where only local boosters would not fear to tread. Ah, but they had a computer. Into the electronic maw went 123 quantifiable variables in five broad areas: 1) environment, including indexes for air, water and noise pollution, climate and availability of recreation; 2) politics, which embraces the turnout of voters, number of newspapers and TV stations, and the performance of local government in fighting crime and getting federal aid; 3) economics, meaning everything from personal income per capita to unemployment rate...