Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More in tune with the times, if no less officious, the Democrats have put out a sheet for both wives and husbands, since two dozen Democratic women are running for Congress. A thoughtful husband, the manual advises, should squelch any rumors that his wife is running for office because their marriage is on the skids. "It's your job to let the voters know that she can do it-and that you want her to do it, that you're with her all the way." Meanwhile, keep the home fires burning as best...
Like other TV viewers, the residents of Parker Towers, an apartment complex in the New York City borough of Queens, can tune in to a numbing variety of national and local television shows. But the 1,350 families in the Towers can also watch programming that is more local than most: it is telecast from directly beneath their apartments in the basement on their own television station...
Quicksilver, Boz Scaggs, and Estus. I never could stand Quicksilver, and I've never heard of Estus, but I'm half tempted to go just to hear Boz, one of rock's unsung heroes, mix country, rock, blues, and nightclub music. The rest of the show plays as a tune-up for Dead freaks. October 31st at the AQUARIUS. 7:30 and 11 p.m. Tickets...
...have a religious quality. They are times when a remnant of believers can get together and have their faith renewed. Seeger seems to know this Last Saturday, for example, he sang old Woody Guthrie songs like "Deportee" and "You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Highway," (a religious tune which Woody partly re-wrote). He also rendered some of the best songs from old albums: "Winoweh," which was his last for the night, and "I Can See a New Day." They were songs designed to bring back memories, or at least make people feel part of a common tradition...
...from certain that this attractive concept can be made to work. Various experiments with local programming in the early '60s were notably disappointing. Viewers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are as accustomed as viewers in Manhattan to glossy, big-budget shows from the networks. They are not likely to tune in to less professional shows on the public channel, even if they do come from their area...