Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such hopes, however, hang on the very tattered threads of the "coattail" theory. Revisionist political scientists, looking back over old elections with new eyes, now wonder if coattails ever were very important. They point out that in the past 24 years, three winning Presidents have actually run behind their party's candidates for the House. In Politics, Presidents and Coattails, Political Scientist Malcolm Moos concludes: "The coattail influence of the presidential candidate has been demonstrated to be of minor significance...
...technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares this illusion, which provides the revue with its life. She sings about the lost wonder of Xanadu, the time when man could think of no limit on his life but death, as if she had just flown in from there in time for the curtain...
Still, there are two things you can hold him to. He has the English adolescent's fondness for American rhythm and blues. His most recent music stands on this as much as anything. "The Jeff Beck Group," his latest release, contains a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Gotta Have a Song," and a brilliant instrumental of Valerie Simpson's "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You." Also, Beck journeyed to Detroit several years back to do some sessions with the Motown house band that've become an underground legend. Nothing from the seasions was ever released...
With the influenza season just around the corner, and presumably hundreds of wonder-drug prescriptions looming in the near future, be forewarned that you are likely to find your pocketbook plagued, as well as your body...
Otherwise the story is a promising crime caper, involving the theft of millions of dollars worth of wine. Condon's throwaway lines have all their old weird wonder. Any one of the enormities he assigns to his characters at the rate of three a page would have fueled a complete farce. Jangling together they achieve only a certain frenzy, and give the odd impression of a man shouting desperately to avoid hearing something...