Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen arrests on such charges as assaulting a police officer and possession of amphetamines. Last year Skynyrd ruined more than half the exercise machines at Nashville's Spence Manor Hotel. During a recent trip to Bristol, England, Van Zant threw an oak table out a fifth-story hotel window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs." But it wasn't so funny several months ago at New York's Beacon Theater, when Bass Player Leon Wilkeson...
Drummer Artimus Pyle's recent target was the Macon Hilton, which failed to Include sugar with his room-service order of iced tea. "First I demolished the louvered doors," he recalls. "I tried to throw the TV out the window, but it wouldn't fit. So I splintered everything else." He sighs: "Whew, it always feels better without that tension...
Restic's always-intricate game plan was tossed out the press box window last week in the face of Ms. Nature's indiscretions, but a week of good work at Soldiers Field has produced another one which promises greater effectiveness against a tough Big Green outfit...
...past and future - always live in the present and live each moment fully. "Prisoners of war," he says, "survived in the most terrible circumstances. Their secret was learning to appreciate the small things that made up their daily existence - a tiny crust of bread, sunrise from a cell window." In sum, the most salable self-help philosophy for the disillusioned '70s seems to be: Minimize pain, concentrate on self, and try to find joy even in horrible circumstances...
...John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s problems with its new headquarters over. Lawsuits arising because of the window pains will take years to settle. Sighed Hancock Chairman Gerhard Bleicken at the dedication ceremonies: "We came to realize that people who build glass houses are bound to lead a fragile existence...