Word: baez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anniversary of thehorseshoe, and it's an understatement to say that a lot ofamazing things have transpired in the last 75 years. Therewas the cold-weather conversion of the field into skatingrinks; there was the modification from horseshoe to oval andback again; there were speeches (Castro) and rock concerts(Baez to Manilow); but most of all there were footballgames...
...Catholic hierarchy's call a month later for a pluralistic "national government" to replace Somoza was immediately seconded by every major business organization in the country. The businessmen were worried by Nicaragua's growing fiscal problems, mounting foreign debt and Somoza's proposal for new taxes. Said William Baez, executive secretary of the Nicaraguan Institute of Development: "Somoza foments Communism solely by remaining in power...
...Joan Baez, songstress and protester, after meeting Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov in Moscow: "He is paying a much higher price for his dissenting views than I ever had to pay for mine...
...last time a performer appeared in the stadium for a concert program was in 1969, when Boston's "Summer thing" sponsored the performance of several rock groups in a billing with Joan Baez. But the Athletic Department denied promoters use of the stadium in subsequent years because of damages to the stadium that followed several demonstrations and arrests after the 1969 performance...
...women--I never felt I would be able to feel sorry for anyone who would title their autobiography Reflections in a Crystal Teardrop, but Joan Baez manages to come out from under the weight of Dylan's cynicism with her dignity intact. There is one long scene--perhaps we could call it "Diamonds and Rust Comes to the Silver Screen"--in which Baez and Sara stage a tug of war over the bemused Renaldo. Sara is shown as a made-up 35-year-old housewife, a sort of pushy Zelda Sayre; it is hard to believe that Dylan could have...