Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS, Linda Ronstadt was an artist of largely unfulfilled potential, who, despite spending a good deal of time on the concert tour and making half a dozen albums, remained relatively obscure. Each of her records was a frustrating mixture of some very good and some very bad work. No one questioned the range and vitality of her powerful, expressive voice, but hers was a raw, undisciplined talent that produced some clumsy and overstated recordings...
Ostensibly, Ali had come to defend his title against Frazier in an extravaganza he touts as the "Thrilla in Manila." In fact, the expedition resembles nothing so much as a royal tour. Ali has become one of the most readily recognized individuals in the world. Since he inaugurated his gaudy Third World road show with a knockout of George Foreman a year ago in Zaïre, he has parleyed with Presidents and sheiks. What's more, his pitchman's prattle and irrepressible posturing have never failed to captivate the common...
Last spring, when Peter M. Lange, an assistant professor of Government, arranged a lecture tour of several American universities and research centers for a high official of the Italian Communist Party, he didn't envision any major obstacles...
...SONG IS a tour-de-force, a masterpiece of phrasing, word play, and narrative. When the singer claims in the chorus that he's "Going to Acapulco/Gonna have some fun," we no more believe him than we believed the narrator of "Idiot Wind" on Blood on the Tracks when he insisted that he'd been "double-crossed now/For the very last time/And now I'm finally free!" In each case, Dylan enunciates a single word so as to give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have...
...band will appear from London via satellite doing three typical songs: Bye Bye Baby, its first big hit; Give a Little Love, its current British chart buster; Summer Love Sensation, a new item. Everybody is sure the Rollers will be sensational enough to be demanded back. The group will tour 15 cities in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bernstein is already negotiating a Shea Stadium date for next summer. And the group's first LP has just been released on the Arista label...