Word: zillion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer than usual during the recent Christmas to New Year vacation week--a tribute to the drawing power of America's first skiing president. Thousands of people each day waited up to two hours for a gondola ride to the Mid-Vail ski bowl where Gerry Ford and a zillion Secret Service agents were learning the difference between a schuss and a wedel. Since Ford usually made his appearances between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.--in the height of the noonday sun--the sun decks outside the Mid-Vail ski lodge and the chairlift lines snaking at its base swelled...
...zillion other folks whose names...
...died, or went the many strange ways its listeners did. The rock that succeeded it kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into oblivion, deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat to the existing order--into a parody of itself, dressing up in paint and feather boas...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is next door at the Jazz Workshop till the end of the weekend. Kirk is very high-energy and plays a zillion instruments, many of which you've never even heard of, often all at once. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz whose hay-days never seem to end. In a week less full of uniformly good stuff we'd recommend him without a second thought; he may be hard to squeeze in this week, what with Chem 20 hourlies piling up and all, but you really should catch his act at least once...
...foolishness ("Senator, at long last, have you no shame?"), but Tracy reportedly wanted too much money for the part. Cameo performanced by Robert F. Kennedy, Roy Cohn, and G. David Schine (who grew up to be executive producer of The French Connection and make a zillion bucks) add sparkle to an otherwise lackluster cast. Channel...