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...Thomas Babe and Dean Stolber, as Trinculo and Stephano, created their own little boozy world in their scenes with Caliban. In a lesser production they'd be the reason for buying tickets...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Tempest | 11/13/1965 | See Source »

Northern Minnesota's lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan's Big Blue Ox. In recent years, another Bunyan, or another Babe, seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel: Resurgence in Bunyan Country | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...BABE (White Whale). In another song written by Dylan and sung by the Turtles, he lectures clinging vines who only want a strong shoulder to lean on. "Go 'way from my window at your own chosen speed," he declares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 17, 1965 | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...months ago by adding a thumping big beat to the elliptical verses of his Subterranean Homesick Blues. He followed with his biggest folk-rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone, and the big-beat groups were quick to latch on to his songs, most notably It Ain't Me, Babe by the Turtles and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds. Booed during a performance at this year's Newport Folk Festival for his big beat, Dylan philosophized: "It's all music; no more, no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...reigning sweethearts of folk rock. Their costumes, faithfully imitated by their followers, are pop art with pockets: Chér in wildly striped bell-bottom slacks, Sonny in shaggy bobcat and possum fur vests. In the face of adult censure, they join hands and sing I Got You, Babe: "They say your hair's too long. But I don't care. With you I can't do wrong." When the manager of a Los Angeles restaurant recently asked them to leave because their appearance disturbed the customers, Sonny rushed home to the piano in his garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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