Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song that came out of those first sessions, That's All Right, Mama, became a substantial local hit. So did the next four singles. By the time the last, Mystery Train, was released, Presley had connected with a deadeye promoter named Colonel Tom Parker, who landed him a national contract with RCA Records for the outlandish sum of $35,000. In the winter of 1956, not six months after Mystery Train came out, Elvis Presley released Heartbreak Hotel and sent American popular culture into a collective delirium that came, after a while, to be called "the Rock...
...Tom Paine wrote another work, the title of which I believe does indeed apply to President Carter: Common Sense...
...narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed a task force of people from seven city and state agencies to investigate Hollywood's problems...
...tempting today to throw cherry bombs into the ruins of that delusion: the period seems prime for revisionism and ridicule. But to see that generation contemptuously as merely the screaming, Spock-coddled army of Consciousness III ignores the great changes it helped to cause in American life. Says Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, who last year ran against John Tunney in the California senatorial race: "We ended a war, toppled two Presidents, desegregated the South, broke other barriers of discrimination." That is hyperbolic; such changes did not occur until a broader nonradical...
...restyle their papers to keep their customers happy. The readers answer: add more information about homes, entertainment food, leisure and similar daily living concerns that New York and other city magazines have elevated to objects of intense journalistic scrutiny. Says the Los Angeles Times 's new president, Tom Johnson: "People do not want a newspaper, they want a use paper...