Word: watt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They were "discovered" four years ago when an executive from station WUNR overheard their loud banter in a Boston bar and invited them to sound off at a microphone. Sports Huddle was such an instant hit that six months later it was transferred to WBZ, a 50,000-watt station heard in 32 states and Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest jerk I ever met," while Andelman described Boston Garden, the Bruins' home rink...
...Donald and Lydia, one of the tracks on Prine's recent Atlantic LP, Donald is a lonely Army private living in a "warehouse of strangers with 60-watt lights," and Lydia is a small-eyed fat girl reading True Romance magazines up in her room and feeling "just like Sunday or Saturday afternoon." When they make love to each other it is "from ten miles away." In Hello In There, Prine sings of an elderly couple who live together silently in the city. She stares through the back screen door, while he ponders calling up a friend...
Judge Rowe is an archconservative. At the other end of the spectrum, both ideologically and temperamentally, is Martha Jean, "the Queen," Detroit's 1,000-watt soul sister. "You are livin' with the Queen," she tells her mostly black audience on WJLB. "And that's pretty good livin', I betcha. All you got to do is be touched by the Queen and everything will be all right...
OTHER MINOR characters were not as satisfactory, mostly because their roles were not so thoroughly conceived. Eloise Watt, as Gertrude, adds a nice touch with her lustful perusals of Rosencrantz. However, she and her Claudius, played by Bill Strong, are too sweet to be scheming and too sincere to be ridiculous. Tony Cesare's Polonius is silly, rather than senile; his character lacks what the genuine figure of Polonius invariably exhibits, an exaggerated sense of his worth and of the importance of his actions. Fletcher Word plays Hamlet who seems neither intense nor melancholy. Liz Hollister, however, portrays Ophelia effectively...
...geographic center of town, it will bestride the narrow city like a clumsy metal Colossus, standing a full 1,811 feet above sea level. To signal its presence to low-flying planes, it will wear gaudy red and white stripes studded with seven rows of 1,000-watt beacons. If it is built as planned...