Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christmas. The day He was born. Santa Claus. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward people, spend money. Want to drown out those obnoxiously cheery-faced little carollers outside in the street? Try playing some records. We went sleighing over hills and dales, to grandma's and the North Pole, to find the best Christmas albums for you. And we found them in a stocking over a big fireplace somewhere in Greenland. But we lost them. So we reviewed these albums instead...
...might, you can't focus on that incredible voice enough to drown out the little twinkling bells in the background, the familiar diddly-shit Christmas muzak heard in stores everywhere as the subliminal message underneath chants...
...effort to ease the nation into a short and shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...
After years playing opposite Bogart, Bogarde, Flynn, Benny and Gable, Alexis Smith finally gets to play the harlot Xaviera instead of hard to get. She slides down stairs and moseys off stage convincingly enough, but the Texas Tally Wackers--the "orchestra"--drown out her songs. She's still a pretty classy old whore, and does her best to compensate for a script crammed full of non-sequiturs. The storyline slips readily from bathos to pathos and back again...
Another shipbuilder, Richard Dennison, 59, of South Thomaston, who has been in the business for 29 years, is also optimistic. Said he: "I'd like to see more of the same kind of boats. Maybe then the Arabs would drown in their own oil." Not likely. But one thing is certain: when Ned Ackerman takes the Leavitt on her maiden voyage, whether they sail north or south, skipper and ship will be moving in the right direction.-Hays Gorey