Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a twirl of his TV dial on one typical evening last week, an Italian viewer could tune into the following shows: instruction in sexual positions by a scantily clad young couple; lessons in chess, French or English; a battery of commentators ruminating about the kidnaping of ex-Premier Aldo Moro; an education program to help children with their homework; a spaghetti western; a porno feature called The Masseuses; and a phone-in quiz starring a housewife-masked to protect her identity-who peeled off an item of clothing every time a caller got the answer right. For the truly...
...Francisco. After writing more than 200 songs with indifferent success, Cory was approached in 1961 by Singer Tony Bennett, who needed a number to highlight a San Francisco engagement and salvage a fading career. Cory and his lyricist partner Douglass Cross pulled a dusty, eight-year-old tune from their trunk and the trio made a fortune...
Further back, different chants and songs develop. You hear one band of people try to resuscitate "We Shall Overcome," but somehow it doesn't make it--it seems only an out-of-tune recollection of what it once was like 12 or 13 years ago. It's not that people have stopped believing they can overcome. (Although why should they? What is there in the past ten years to convince them otherwise?) But the song is hard on people who want to believe they are accomplishing something by marching; it's a reminder of the hope that people placed...
...Frankly, I think they (the opposition) were a little surprised when we came in," said coach Bob Donovan. After completing this week's arduous schedule with an unblemished 7-0 record, though, the Crimson golfers proved they can carry a winning tune...
...money for everyone, but a number of freshman women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for loans. When it was too late, Radcliffe realized it would not be able to spend all of its NDSL grant and next year will pay for the underutilization to the tune...