Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major alterations in The Who is that for years there has been no breaking of instruments. "Sometimes I got the feeling," says Entwistle, 35, "that the people wished we would just come out, smash up the lot and leave." An additional, sadder change occurred when Keith Moon died of drug overdose at 31; he was replaced on drums by Kenny Jones, 31. The 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...
...Administration's emergency plans certainly can be criticized on one point: with the demonstrators roaming outside the walls, U.S. personnel should have been able to destroy all documents. The Marine guards held off the mob long enough to enable officials to shred important classified files and smash encoding equipment. No serious security breach is believed to have occurred. But embarrassing documents did fall into the hands of the invaders, and they have been successfully used to inflame mobs in Iran...
...Phillips) is in thrall to two false gods, alcohol and his mother. Soutine (George Gerdes) is a color addict equally intoxicated by the stains on a butcher's apron and the veins of a plucked chicken. Led by Modigliani (Jeffrey de Munn), these Three Musketeers of the Night smash up cheap restaurants, cadge drinks, slash their canvases in frustrated rage and collapse in wild laughter at their own absurdity...
...five were killed last week in a "Smash the Klan" rally broken by members of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups who fired shots into the crowd...
Fleetwood Mac, a band whose average lyric has the approximate weight and consistency of a summer breeze, have become the smash success story of the late '70s. They even outpoint the Eagles; their last album, 1977's Rumours, has rung up sales of something like 15 million copies. Their new album, Tusk, is two records' worth of prime Mac material; they may even be cueing it up in Dorset right...