Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrific dance band; inside is a real trailblazer. The group, out of Detroit by way of some dark but friendly musical star, gets hold of a brawny rhythm-and-blues foundation, overlays it with some up-to-the-second dance sounds and ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...
...order to counter the University's celebrity-laden slate for the Board of Overseers, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid nominates Jack Lemmon '47, Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison '70 and folksinger Tom Rush '63. Michael S. Dukakis (Law School '60) attempts to place himself on the ballot as a write-in candidate, however he cannot find the requisite 293 alumni to recognize...
...Some people come in here who haven't eaten a hot dog in 10 years, almost get down on their knees, and thank us for opening up," says Nick Lamberti, 34, who co-owns the store with fellow Boston College alumnus Tom Gianchristiano. They brought the Chicago dog concept from their Quincy restaurant, "Gianberti's," to the Square in July, soothing the hungers of hundreds of hot dog worshippers...
...similar charade is now taking place against the opposition of only a handful of legislators. New Hampshire Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey has called for an early Senate vote, followed by "public pressure on the House to hold a vote before the deadline." In the House, Wisconsin Republican Tom Petri has demanded that Speaker Jim Wright require a vote on the raises before the waiting period expires. "If we lack the courage to face an issue as clear cut as that of lining our own pockets," Petri asked, "how can we expect the public to have confidence in us on more...
David Azar will face the first degree murder charge in the Middlesex Superior Court House before Judge Hiller Zobel, according to court spokesman Tom Samoluk...