Word: matches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house itself is a modest dwelling, consisting of only six rooms. But for the latest occupant of the building, owned by former Panamanian Ambassador to the U.S. Gabriel Lewis Galindo, it is a much needed haven. "Such surroundings, such hospitality, are not going to be easy to match," said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi last week about his new sanctuary. "I feel like home...
...York City, N.G. Slater Corp. manufactures buttons that bear anti-Iranian vulgarisms. There are numerous varieties of Khomeini dart boards and targets for sharpshooters. One dart board features a caricature of the Ayatullah holding a lighted match to his posterior. In Bedford Park, Ill., Michael McCormack was inspired to make Khomeini dart boards by a diaper serviceman who lined his truck with pictures of the Ayatullah and threw soiled diapers on them. Says McCormack: "We have sold 200,000 to everyone from little old ladies to a kid who wants to peddle them in grammar school...
...group still puts My Generation across with enough swagger and insinuation to get you giddy or make you feel like you are being stalked down a dark street. When Townshend, 35, called himself "the aging daddy of punk rock," he was not being entirely facetious. Who music can match the tough street impact of punk, especially as Daltrey dishes it out. At 35, he may be one of the oldest kids in the playground, but he is still one of the toughest. Townshend melodies like Pure and Easy, Baba O'Riley and Music Must Change have the structural sophistication...
...Townshend started writing his own tunes, widening the focus past Mod to take in all the audience. I Can't Explain, My Generation, The Kids Are Alright were as fresh and nervy as battle reports from the front lines where youth was locked in a tag-team match with the forces of the Establishment...
That was the period when Townshend started to push. "I thought we had to do something grand, almost daft ... and possibly pompous." That was Tommy, and The Who finally had what it was after: a general audience success to match its reputation among rock fans...