Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next spring she will present Montezuma by the American composer Roger Sessions. It is a spectacle of formidable musical and technical dimensions that Caldwell has wanted to stage for years. In 1971, just to get the feel of the thing, she went to Mexico and retraced the victory trail of the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez. Last week she was back again, studying the pyramids in Teotihuacan...
...pauses long enough on its way to a gold robbery to murder her father, a missionary to an Indian village. Nothing will do, of course, but that she must join forces with Rooster in order to help avenge her father's death. The pair quarrel along a meandering trail. She tries to reform him or at least get him to take a bath and ease up on the corn likker. He grouses about the talky ways into which her moral fervor leads her. In the end, needless to say, mutual respect bordering on romantic attachment develops between them...
Phony Letters. The trail from CIA to IRS was marked by a once secret CIA memo unearthed by Church. It related how in 1967 a CIA official had warned IRS that the radical magazine Ramparts was planning to publish articles critical of the CIA and the whole Lyndon Johnson Administration. The CIA memo urged that "the corporate tax returns of Ramparts, Inc., be examined [by IRS] and that any leads to possible financial supporters be followed up by an examination of their individual tax returns...
Ford's announcement came as a surprise to some of his top economic advisers. The President made his feelings known on the campaign trail in Oma ha, not in prepared remarks but in response to journalists' questions. He gave no hint of how big a tax cut he would accept, or what spending cuts he might insist on, and indicated that a combination of tax and spending reductions was only one of several plans under consideration...
WHEN JANIS JOPLIN SANG, you could hear the years of whiskey and smoke she'd seen. And while Bruce Springsteen is usually as full-voiced as a coonhound hot on the trail, he has that same degenerate raspiness, hoarsely trailing off at the end of a line, or scream-whispering into a mike. In Springsteen's first two albums. Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, his voice jibed perfectly with his driving music and his lyric description of growing up in New Jersey. But his new album, Born To Run, is inconsistent...