Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record on which eclecticism is the catchword and "Reckless Abandon" the title involves more risks than a straight forward rock LP. Surprisingly, only "Child's Song," a piece about a young man leaving home to discover himself, falls completely flat. When Tom Rush recorded this song, he understated the lyrics, using only a guitar to accompany his soft, husky voice. Bromberg makes the mistake of injecting too much pathos in an already overly sentimental song, allowing a string section to drip, or rather, gush, while he croons in what sounds like a hostile Leo Kottke imitation...
...Celtics are still individuals this season, working on putting it together. There are new faces and old ones, and coach Tom Heinsohn has not yet found the right combination for his team. Bright spots have been infrequent for the Celtics in '77, but the latest one has been Cedrick "Cornbread" Maxwell, the Celtics' talented rookie...
Maxwell is the new face on the floor, but the Celtics also have a new man on the bench: former Harvard head basketball coach Tom "Satch" Sanders. As an assistant to Heinsohn and the team's chief scout, Sanders will have a major impact on the Celtics' future...
Sure, Cleary gave me the same story that he gave Mike Savit, Tom Aronson, and Bill Stedman before...
True Confessions, John Gregory Dunne's first novel, is Tom Spellacy's unrepentant recollections of his life as a tarnished blue knight. He proves to be a gifted, foulmouthed raconteur who can charm the reader down to a plane where cynicism and sentimentality are indistinguishable and the difference between social history and gossip is irrelevant. His "book" on Lois Fazenda, a would-be starlet whose naked body was found neatly cut in two at the torso: "She lived in a series of boarding houses much like the one on North Cherokee. On West Adams Boulevard she thought...