Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OBJECTIVE STATEMENT Mitchell makes most prominent is suburban dreariness. Several songs are explicit narratives of that dish-water despair, there's-no-olive-in-my-martini madness. In "Harry's House/Centerpiece" Mitchell interposes a jazzy arrangement of a 1950s love tune, "Baby, you're my centerpiece," with a desolate vision...
...swift, unpredictable movement of the show testified to the group's "Kuumba," or creativity, as the word translates from Swahili, while the audience involvement further reflected the creative energy of the choir singers. The program opened with a gospel tune, "Jesus, the Light of the World" and a Scripture reading, and the spiritual overtones continued through the performance, emphasizing Christmas as a celebration that brings people together...
Enough! It never occurred to me how important the Kennedy assassination has been to our economy. The number of people deriving income from spectacular, grisly films, books and lectures must be impressive. Not to mention the valuable tune our men of science spend filling skulls with gelatine and shooting bullets into melons...
...tune-up for tonight's pivotal duel with top-ranked St. John's, Harvard's fencing team annihilated visiting Southeastern Massachusetts University, 23-4. Simultaneously, Radcliffe's duelers were disposing of the S.M.U. distaffs...
Longerrange, to mollify the French, the U.S. agreed that some tune or another there should be a return to fixed rates, which−except in special circumstances−would oblige each nation to keep its currency at a specified par value. The French, for their part, set no deadline. Vague as all this sounds, the agreement holds at least some promise of calming world currency markets...