Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shorty cutoffs and loose blouse, the love she describes is less ethereal. With their eyes riveted on her erogenous promontories, her fans usually miss the fact that her songs of passion are leavened with feminine pride and anxiety. Women's music sells. Ronstadt's Heart Like a Wheel album sold over 150,000 units for Capitol Records in its first month of release. Muldaur's first solo album on Reprise sold 750,000 copies...
...lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward the end of the course, the couple must spin a "wheel of misfortune" that lists nine possible catastrophes (for example, the breadwinner is fired, the mother-in-law moves in or part of the house burns), all of which lead eventually to divorce...
...Jersey voters, in an upset, decisively rejected an initiative that would have legalized gambling casinos in the state. Advocated by Governor Brendan Byrne as a source of state revenue, the casino idea was supported by Atlantic City businessmen who were hoping that the roulette wheel would restore the seaside resort's fading image. But a citizens' group calling itself Casinos-No Dice, backed by state legislators, law-enforcement officials and clergymen, raised the specter of an invasion of the casinos by organized crime. Though the pro-casino forces outspent Casinos-No Dice by some...
...their blows. Later, they turned me to the wall again, demanding to know the name of Luis' fiancee, so they could arrest her. I said I didn't know her, though I did. They used a new (to me) shock device. It was some kind of wheel with spikes on it, which they rolled across my back, scratching me. As they pushed down on it, it also gave me a severe electric shock...
...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...