Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whispering ladies with jangly handbags, a bored cigar chomper and his prissy wife, an ecstatic temptress so caught up in the music that she seems to be seducing the piano. The sequence ends in a parody of musical chairs when an usher discovers that everyone has the wrong ticket stub...
Back in 1967 and '68 the Vanilla Fudge were doing versions of "Ticket to Ride" and "Eleanor Rigby" that made George Harrison stand up and take notice. And then of course there was always the classic "You Keep Me Hanging On", a hit so big that they were never able to duplicate it. The new arrangements were made long and drawn out by the liberal use of a screaming, powerful Hammond organ and a perhaps too heavy use of fuzz box and wah-wah pedal. The songs were full of three part vocal harmonies and surprising changes in rhythm...
Muskie remembers the day in Los Angeles, more than a year before, when he candidly told a group of black leaders that he would not choose a Negro as his running mate because, "in view of the climate in the country today, if a black man were on the ticket, we would both lose...
...polls confirmed his judgment. But his analysis applied to Democrats. How could he have foreseen that Richard Nixon would seize the chance for one more bold surprise and name Massachusetts' Edward W. Brooke, the Senate's only black member, to replace Spiro Agnew on the 1972 G.O.P. ticket? Muskie shakes his head ruefully as the NBC computer awards California to Nixon-Brooke on the basis of early returns from Oakland and Watts...
...chart). During the 1971 model year, their share of the market dropped to 5%, and in the past two months it has plummeted to 3.9%. At this year's Detroit auto show, which ended last week, the sports compacts were elbowed to the sidelines by family sedans, high-ticket luxury models and by two categories of lightweight, low-cost cars: the compacts (such as the Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Nova and American Motors Hornet) and subcompacts (such as Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega and Dodge Colt). Summarizing the change in taste, Chrysler Vice President Bob McCurry told TIME Correspondent David DeVoss...