Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical tune will start with a strong melodic hook-sometimes tough, sometimes close to lilting-then build in volume and intensity, the instruments laying under and layering on one another until the song shatters around your ears like a sheet of glass falling off a fast-moving truck. This is heavy-metal music with easy-listening inflections, rock fierce enough for the FM stations, flighty enough to fit right into Top 40 AM radio...
...afternoon last week a crew of Colombians began loading bales of unlabeled cargo into a four-engine DC-7 at Curaçao airport in the Dutch Antilles. That night the lumbering 22-year-old plane took off for what the crew said was a local test run to tune up its engines...
...number of freshmen women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for the loans. When it was too late, administrators realized that Radcliffe would not be able to spend all of its NDSL grant, and this year Radcliffe is paying for the under utilization to the tune...
...Tune for Truth, Simon...
Contact with audiences is essential too. As this round of musical chairs comes to an end, people will be hearing familiar orchestras under new leadership. It promises to be an exciting tune...