Word: concertedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparable campaign is taking place in Newbury, 53 miles west of London, where 96 U.S. cruise missiles are to be based in 1983. Labor Left-Winger Joan Ruddock has organized an antimissile drive-complete with lapel buttons, canvassing and a rock concert. Such efforts are hardly marginal: a recent poll showed that 56% of Britain's population opposes the deployment of the U.S. missiles. Says Ruddock: "The whole idea of theater nuclear weapons means that we will be annihilated to save the United States and the eastern part of the U.S.S.R...
This frankly humorous melodrama about a terminally unlucky Klondike gold rusher has one foot in the music hall, the other in the concert hall. It was booed almost as lustily as it was applauded...
True, they flew into town aboard private jets, and both had the customary squads of professional chums. But the sold-out performance by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. at Atlanta's Civic Center last week was a starry burst of altruism: the $148,000 in concert receipts went into municipal coffers drained by the costs of investigating the murders of 20 black children. Halfway through the three-hour benefit -in which Native Georgian Burt Reynolds and Singer Roberta Flack appeared-Sinatra declared his "sadness and love" for Atlantans "frightened by day and doubly frightened by night." Furthermore, Sinatra...
...band living in a Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love" in concert and later (Jimmy Webb's, pop) "Up, Up, and Away" in a studio...
Indeed, with a four-concert season at Sanders Theatre and a possible spring tour, the conductorship, which carries with it the title of Music Director, is like a full-time job. But although she is eager to take on this full-time responsibility--"It's really the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me"--Watt says she still resists the idea of becoming a professional musician. "I would much rather have music as an avocation, as something to enjoy, than as something to put me under all this intense pressure," she says, adding, "If anyone had asked...