Word: waved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for WEEI, because that's an all-news station, and it may snow again soon. By the way--where does WBZ-FM come off calling itself a "New Wave" station (they announce the fact four times an hour, instead of playing commercials; somehow, considering the utterly objectionable recycled trash they've been playing these days, commercials might not be such a bad idea...Hmmm..."You're listening to the best in commercial radio, WBZ-FM Boston. That was Tom Carvel, from his Yonkers period, doing the classic 'Every Wednesday it's Sundae!' And now, cats and kittens...
...grooves are starting to wear out on my Elvis Costello album, and I grow more and more impatient with those who dismiss this "new wave" of really interesting music out of hand while they keep tuning in the same old Phoebe Snow when it's snowing out, or, even when it's not, allowing themselves to fall prey to a music industry which thinks it can sustain itself by suffusing everything with progressively less-and-less-thinly-veiled sexual imagery and by deifying preposterous 40-year old monstrosities like Heart and Queen and Kiss...
...believe it or not, they don't exist any more). Until he resurfaces someday as a used-car salesman or something, all we are left with for the moment is the following compelling quote, which I gratefully lift from Caroline Coon's interesting new book "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion" (Hawthorn Books...
...WEEKS AGO, Finch--riding a wave of grass roots popularity--accomplished what no predecessor in this century had ever done. Finch pushed a bill through the jealous and suspicious Mississippi Senate allowing him to serve two back-to-back four-year terms. In the past, Mississippi governors have perenially pleaded to the state's legislative bodies to pass a constitutional amendment permitting gubernatorial succession, but to no avail--despite the fact that these governors proved they had no ulterior motives by adding clauses insuring that the amendment would only affect future governors, not themselves. Suddenly, Finch is succeeding where...
Northeastern, riding on the wave of the 36 points it had earned in the field events held Friday, came up the winner of the meet for the second year in a row with a point total...