Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great shape," said someone in William Shatner's entourage. Shatner followed Arnold on "Good Day"; he looked fat, Hercules couldn't tell where his belly ended and his chest began...
...Tell that guy not to announce me over the microphone as the bodybuilder," Arnold was saying. "I think my writing ability has succeeded the bodybuilding. Announce me as the best-selling author." A Coop employee spoke to Arnold in German, and left. "Every time I come here she wants me to sit here naked," Arnold said. "I told her she should take her clothes...
...sentiments are so right on. You know it's gotta be amazing when, on the first side, Oscar the Grouch belts out a convincing "I Hate Christmas." When he sees Santa coming, he sings, "Who needs that great big noise? I tell him where to put his toys...
Sorry. The album does tell the story of Snoopy fighting the Red Baron at the climax of World War I, but we stopped following it somewhere. You've heard it before, and you don't care. Listen to the great sound effects: whole squadrons of fighter planes taking off overhead, artillery shells bursting, Snoopy keeping warm behind the lines with the German frauleins (thanks to Donna Summer here), great aerial dogfights. Like Sensurround, only smaller. And quieter...
...Treasure (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $7.95), Shulevitz speaks in his own voice to tell the story of old Isaac who dreams of a treasure far away, near the royal residence. The poor man has no ambition to play the palace, but his hunger for riches leads him on, only to prove that travel is narrowing and that no one can become truly rich until he looks into his hearth and soul. The back-in-your-own-backyard conclusion is timeworn, but the book's slow cadences and sprightly tones lend it the character of a legend that can never grow...