Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Americans, though inflation has undeniably shrunk their dollars, celebrated Thanksgiving last week in the midst of a national bounty that remains largely unabated. At the same tune, many people in the world's poorest nations were on the brink of starvation, and an inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries...
...laid off 20,000 clerks, accountants and lower-level managers; Sears has let more than 200 executives and middle-management workers go in the past several weeks. Many big corporate employers have quietly frozen new hiring and are trying to whittle their staffs through attrition. At the same tune, employees are less eager to reach for early retirement at a tune of soaring inflation. The Chicago office of the Booz Allen executive recruiting firm has been receiving close to 400 unsolicited letters from job seekers each week, up from about 125 a week in less jittery times...
...sucked up by the crowd. Before the driver can climb out the windows are bashed in. Out of the crowd arch Molotov cocktails, their path flickered across 8,000 forms, the fire mirrored on their foreheads. Lurching into the warm at top speed comes a bog car to the tune of I'm the King of Rock and Roll. It runs head on into the bus. The night sky is consumed by a rising pillar of fire, weaving its eerie, smoke-obscured path across the entire breadth of the countryside. There is no end to the burning. I drift...
...conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work on the part of brother Dave...
...guitarist with the blues-rocking Edgar Winter Group. And why not? Hartman is the proud owner of a new set of threads that just may revolutionize the look of a rock concert. Let the Doobie Brothers attire their drummer in stars and stripes that blink on and off in tune to the big beat. Let Elton John wear trousers that explode. Hartman tops them all with the Guitar Suit, a $5,000, one-piece, silverized affair that makes possible a Flash Gordonesque union of man, music and instrument. Says Hartman: "I feel completely different as a performer...