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...album consists of only nine songs, scarcely any of which run more than four minutes. There is no dead wood--it seems Williams was out to achieve the tightest set possible. His back-up band is superb, especially Carr's electric guitar. Williams recruited Charlie Daniels's fiddle and the Allman Brothers' Chuck Leavell to play keyboards, and the influence of these rockers blends with Williams's own country background to make the musical part of this album first-rate. Williams's vocals are always on target, ranging from a hurting, plaintive whine on "Living Proof" to a rocking shout...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Brand New Country Star | 4/10/1976 | See Source »

...suddenly drown in an excess of saliva. Yet it is a reckless woman who dares take more than a small slice of some favorite dish, for should she eat as much as she likes, she will simply faint dead away, as the corsets they wear this season are of tightest whalebone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Schuyler/Vidal on the Way It Was | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Ford flew first to Chicago, where the Secret Service had requested the local police to impose the tightest security in the city's history: some 1,000 patrolmen and plainclothesmen were assigned. Also on hand were at least 100 Secret Service agents and an undisclosed number from the FBI. The area outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT: Under Guard, but Still on the Road | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

Baseball conjures up images of summer: warm afternoons, sandlots, hot dogs and beer, and pennant races. Last year the Harvard baseball team was caught up in a red-hot pennant race of its own, one of the tightest Eastern races ever, before it emerged victorious on a warm May afternoon claimed an unprecedented fourth straight Eastern League title...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Baseball: Images of Summer | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...tightest match of the day was in final slot, where Harvard's Howland Murphy edged out Lindsay Fowler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injury-Hampered Crimson Raquetmen Trounce Hapless Williams Squad, 8-1 | 1/9/1975 | See Source »

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