Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film comedy; a threatening group sneaks up behind someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...
...Whittemore and Angleton edited a quarterly of original poetry, called Furioso, financed mostly by subscriptions raised by Whittemore's aunt. Contributors included Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams. Rates were $1 a page. "When we were short of money, which was most of the tune," Whittemore remembers, "we paid off our poets with fine Italian cravats from the stock that the Angleton haberdasher in Italy kept replenishing...
Sentiment is building in Congress to bring some kind of order to the system's crazy-quilt pattern and at the same tune increase payments. At present, benefits vary widely from state to state. The highest weekly maximum, $156 (with dependents), is made in Connecticut; the lowest, $60, in Mississippi. Of course, many people receive less than those maximums. The Administration has now called on all states to pay an amount equal to at least half a worker's average weekly take-home pay-up to a maximum of two-thirds of the average salary paid...
...crusading fortnightly journal last month exposed the derelictions of John Ashcraft, director of the West Virginia department of mines. Ashcraft, the magazine alleged, gentled mammoth coal companies with only token fines for safety violations, while at the same tune violating the law himself by failing to meet the required minimum qualifications for a mine safety inspector. As a result, a committee of the West Virginia state senate will decide this week whether to recommend Ashcraft's impeachment. The aggressive publication that dug out these facts is hardly a national name, though among the miners of Appalachia and labor experts...
...even in the depths of recession, business has never been better. At the Boston Bruins Pro Shop, sales of equipment are up 57% over last winter. At Atlanta's Igloo Ice Skating Rink, parents are eagerly enrolling their kids in a twelve-week mass-instruction course to the tune...