Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Savlov, two kids killed at Altamont when a driver trying to find the freeway slammed his car into their campsite. No one saw some guy fall into an unlit, unfenced irrigation ditch near the Speed way either; he drowned. And of course for none of these fatalities was there upbeat musical accompaniment, nor were they the subject of Mick Jagger's attentions...
...visit went well from the start. The mood was so upbeat that on the first day of the meeting, French national radio began its broadcasts with a salute that must have rattled coffee cups from Calais to Cannes: "Good morning," instead of the customary "Bonjour." The newspaper France-Soir ran a headline that was almost English: POMPIDOU-HEATH SMILING DAY. Heath, similarly, spoke in a language that was almost French when he arrived at Orly. London's Evening Standard slipped in a small tribute with the headline TED ET GEORGES: SUNSHINE FINALE. Meanwhile, at a blacktie dinner...
...Aimee, a pert, peppery, brunette soprano who becomes properly demure for the Gospel numbers-are the stars. Smoothly pancaked, eyelashed, and carefully coiffed in styles of the '60s, the girls come on in bright gowns or knee-length frocks color-coordinated for the cameras. The songs are as upbeat as the clothes. Last Sunday the group led off with Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man from Galilee. Then, in bluesy, three-quarter time, the group did The Angels Rejoiced When My Soul Made a Choice. Finally, Rex himself, clear-eyed, square-jawed and steadfastly ingenuous, came...
...good orchestra. John Miner, the conductor, rehearsed his orchestra well, and put together a tight performance. Miner is an enthusiastic conductor whose beats are impossible to follow as his arms go flailing through the air (in one particularly violent tutti, his cufflink flew off and hit me on an upbeat). He has the orchestra and continuo well under control, and the singers cued in well...
Most After Bonnie's -ups have been scored right in Washington. After Richard Nixon rallied me upper stratum of his Administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House to hear his upbeat post-mortem on the mid term exclusive Bonnie managed to ferret out the details for an exclusive story in our Nov. 16 issue...