Word: ba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ba. young Vietnamese cabin-boy, left his ship in New York just before the outbreak of World War I and went to live briefly in Harlem, which was already a lower-class black slum. This quiet, sensitive young man was only in Harlem briefly, but he carefully observed the overcrowded apartments, the refuse piled high in the streets, the broken lives of the people who lived there. He registered his outrage in his diary and in letters to friends. Many years, wars, prison terms and changes name later, Ba, now calling himself Ho Chi Minh, led his people...
...while I wasn't drinking anywhere if the juke box didn't have "Sail on Sailor." Never got past that song for the rest of the album, though. My connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious...
...while I wasn't drinking anywhere if the juke box didn't have "Sail on Sailor." Never got past that song for the rest of the album, though. My connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious...
...Amanda? More importantly, what is she? A mild case of Amanda-monium swept Washington gossipers and Manhattan society as friends of just-divorced Gotham Socialite Amanda ("Ba") Burden offered theories as to why she and New York City Councilman Carter Burden-the quintessential Beautiful People of a few years back -had split. As usual in matters concerning the B.P., Women's Wear Daily was there first with the most gossip. "I wouldn't exactly call Amanda a walking example of Women's Liberation," Author Truman Capote told their reporters, "but I think she wanted to establish some...
...contemporars fiction," she smiles. "It's no longer a question of seduction and betrayal--there's just activity." Much of her talk was filled with a light-hearted rapport with her listeners. Gracious, delicate, charming, her Southern accent murdering a figure like Lovelace with a characteristic drawl of "ba-a-ad news," Hardwick was able to communicate much of her own personality to her audience. Always sympathetic to them, she would excuse them for not having each novel she discussed at their fingertips, and she imparted a warm femininity through a disarming smile whenever she lost her place or preferred...