Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to take a year off before grad school and see how good I can be. I'll play at least a year on the pro tour just to see how far I can go--so all my life I don't say I could have been good, who was that guy who said it. I could have been a contendah...
Britain had never seen an election campaign quite like it. Looking and sounding like a confident winner, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher last week made a whirlwind trip from one end of the island to the other that had many of the earmarks of a royal tour. She traveled in her own executive bus, which was followed by two others filled with dozens of journalists, ten television crews and a swarm of still photographers. It was election razzmatazz, American style, and Thatcher reveled...
Maggie and Suzzy share an apartment in Greenwich Village, and Terre lives a few blocks away with her boyfriend. Just now, the sisters are starting on a concert tour to promote the new album and are packing their own winning skepticism along with their guitars. "There's no sense of permanence to any of this," says Suzzy, and if the Roches were to be judged by the impact of their celebrity, rather than the staying power of their work, she might be right. But Maggie, characteristically, goes a little deeper. "There's a fear," she says, "that...
...puppy intrudes upon the action). At one point, the hero actually tells Kay, "There are times when everyone needs affection and compassion-even a general." Thank God there is a war going on. To break up the moony romantic scenes, Ike offers a colorful tour of the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the debacle of the Kasserine Pass. Evocative old newsreels, with their Lowell Thomas narration blessedly intact, fill in the skirmishes that are not covered by Ike's budget...
...kind, he works like a demon in the recording studio, With enough original material on tape to press at least twenty albums, he has long since become a faultlessly conscientious producer. And as a performer, he rehearses his bands unmercifully, six hours a day for months before a tour, "getting it right." The ultimate indication of his extreme nature is his renaming of the Mothers of Invention. They are now simply "Zappa...