Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLD Friday morning, and still pitch black as about 120 students sat waiting and shivering on the steps of University Hall. Two or three out-of-tune guitar players strummed out Woodie Guthrie songs, while several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
Choreography by Tommy Tune...
...production in which everyone may take pride, Tommy Tune excels for the freshness of his choreography. One number, in which drollery parallels satire, has six girls of vacuous countenance with dummy life-sized replicas of themselves clinging to them on each arm. The 18-person line swings into a Radio City Rockettes routine that may, quite possibly, induce laughsphyxia. To match this showstopper, Tune has a show-stomper in which the entire Aggie football team unbenches its mighty legs in unison...
...parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called Add-A-Tune, Philpot offered to buy one of Presley's planes (for $2 million) and take it on a fund-raising tour for the church. Next week, the Convair 880, named Lisa Marie for Presley's daughter, will take off on two wings and a prayer for the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium...
...laid-back note or a smug lie. Reed has seen his poetry published in the Paris Review and Fusion, and both stubborn bards and diehard rock 'n' rollers will recognize-maybe even sympathize with-the sentiments expressed in the chorus of a new Reed tune...