Word: barnyards
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...realize how weird Bob Dylan sounded on first hearing--when the gods of show biz must have wondered, Who let him in? A slight figure with voluptuous lips and a hawk's hooded eyes, he hid behind his guitar and his neck-brace harmonica and emitted those torturous barnyard vowel sounds. Yet almost immediately, people got it. The imagery was so rich and cascading, the urgency of his outrage so compelling and contagious that listeners pretty quickly adjusted their long-held definition of what a folk song--or a pop song--was or could...
...polite, affable Oldham remarked, “This is a Mighty Fine...what does the “A” stand for?,” belying his literate roots. He and Sweeney, and their blue-collar, hangover-paced dirges, resonated perfectly with the crowd of neo-barnyard city-dwellers, and transformed the Museum, at least temporarily, into a “trustagrarian” haven...
...barnyard audience served as accompaniment to a solo improvising clarinetist, Matt Katcher ’05, who weaved in and out of the busy audience, and whose improvisation at times sounded remarkably like Mozart’s clarinet concerto. When Katcher stopped playing and shouted “never!” the piece had two minutes remaining...
...barnyard politics at the packed JFK Jr. Forum last night, as activist Ralph Nader faced a rowdy crowd while defending his third-party candidacy in the upcoming presidential election...
...Hoosiers, the 1986 sports classic where the coach of a small high school basketball team, played by Gene Hackman, pulls out a tape measure before the state championship game and shows his players that the basket?s height is the same in both the spacious arena and the barnyard gym. ?The goalposts are still 18-feet wide,? says Vinatieri, smiling. ?Once we move the ball past the 50-yard line, I?ll just step over to the side and start booting a couple of balls into the net. It?s been easy for me to block everything out.? What might...