Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linda Lovelace," says the longhaired actress hoarsely, "and I know what you want." However, before Los Angeles television viewers can jump to any conclusions, the porno-chic Deep Throat artist waves a man's oxford at them, and continues her spiel: "You're looking for comfort, variety and style. So I guess we have a lot in common. Like in shoes." It is the M. & J. Shoe Co. that has Linda Love-lacing up their product over the Southern California air waves, apparently reasoning that exploitation fits their purpose like-er-an old shoe...
...that awkward instrument. More than that, he was a humanist who refused to compromise or adjust in an age of compromise and adjustment. "We are before anything men," he said, "and we have to take part in the circumstances of life. Who indeed should be more concerned than the artist with the defense of liberty and free inquiry, which are essential to his very creativity...
...Count de Morphy sent him to see the French conductor Charles Lamoureux. Gruff, distracted, crippled, Lamoureux rose at the first sounds from Casals' cello, limped toward the young artist, and embraced him, saying: "You are one of the elect." Casals was then 22, and from then on, he had it made. He played for Queen Victoria, the King and Queen of Portugal, and became an intimate of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth (she played violin to his cello...
...comedies affect me in an obscure way. I laugh, as at any good comedy, but then I feel a delicate warmth spreading all across me. During many of the funniest moments I don't laugh at all, just sit and smile the broadest smile I can imagine. No other artist is so lighthearted and yet so moving...
...Casals was not a political artist; he cared little for ideology, and he refused to play in Soviet Russia as well as Fascist Spain. Casals was "fundamentally a Catalonian peasant," a Spanish refugee teaching at the University of Puerto Rico told Bernard Taper of the New Yorker in 1961. Like peasants elsewhere, Casals had a seemingly infinite capacity for endurance, and thinking of the reasons some Vietnamese peasants give for opposing American-backed dictators--those peasants who say they're interested not in politics but in peace, who are motivated not by ideology but just by hatred for torturers...