Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future is uncertain because the depth of his talent is deliberately unspecified. He is also, in the best traditions of working-class heroes, a bit of a bastard. That'll Be the Day (the title comes from a great old Buddy Holly tune) has also learned from its predecessors in the school of angry British realism how to present industrial England with fierce but never condescending accuracy...
Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...
What happened? Did Satch use the hapless Newton squad as a tune-up for the Volunteer Basketball tournament this weekend? Was this a practical joke by somebody in the scheduling office...
...recent years, Jackson, 51, has devoted an increasing amount of tune to his own record commitments and freelance playing. His drive for a separate career illustrates a paradox of ensemble playing. Four men with enough talent and discipline to play as one usually want to be heard alone too. Lewis, 54, the composer-arranger, said emphatically that the break was permanent, but it is hard not to hope that the group will rejoin for records if not for concerts...
Married. Bob Woodward, 31, Washington Post's investigative Watergate reporter; and Frances Barnard, 28, reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram; both for the second tune; in Washington, D.C. Woodward's enterprising colleague, Carl Bernstein, who only learned of the secret marriage with an hour to spare, provided boutonnieres niched from a hotel flowerpot. ∎ Died. Cornelius Ryan, 54, bestselling chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent...