Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane Fonda) rehearse a Bonnie and Clyde act, first out of necessity and then as a sexual turn-on. They debut as criminals by robbing a drugstore; then they progress to the telephone company and Dick's old firm. Dick eventually outsmarts his ex-boss Charley (Ed McMahon) to wind up as president of the corporation. If crime is a game, then their winning number keeps coming up on the roulette wheel...
...high-wattage waif, would be a rarity if all she had done were to survive for twelve years in the shark-infested deeps of rock. In fact, each of her last four albums has "gone platinum" - sold better than a million copies - and her last two, Hasten Down the Wind and Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits, reached sales of a million in a matter of weeks. Before Christmas she finished a wildly cheered six-month tour of the U.S. and Europe, during which audiences of 15,000 were common...
...musical associates agree that she is still learning. In her Hasten Down the Wind album, she waded delightfully into reggae, the Jamaican folk-rock. She has begun, timidly, to write songs. Says Singer and Songwriter John David Souther, a friend and onetime lover: "Her creative capacity is endless. I doubt if she knows the depth of it herself...
...family, is a guitarist who sang Mexican songs to his four children when they were little. (Gilbert Ronstadt's name appears with Linda's and that of her friend Bass Player Kenny Edwards as co-author of Lo Siento Mi Vida on the album Hasten Down the Wind...
...smoker's usual level, he smokes: when it is at his level, he doesn't." Schachter agrees with other researchers who have recommended development of a new high-nicotine, low-tar, low-gas cigarette. Current low-tar, low-nicotine brands, he says, may be lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger cigarettes. Worse, it's probably a good guess that the low-tar brands are hooking millions of teenagers. When I was young, that first Camel or Lucky made so many kids...