Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other controversies plaguing rock concern the merits of the Doors and the Beach Boys. Both groups have pockets of passionate defenders who try to counter the majority opinion which is overwhelmingly critical. Paul Williams is an important and influential voice who makes an articulate and gripping defense of both groups. In particular Williams thinks extraordinarily highly of the Beach Boys and of their guiding spirit Brian Wilson. He devotes nearly 50 pages of the book to exploring Brian Wilson's psyche and enthusing over the Beach Boys' music. The net effect is certainly to force one to reconsider...
Puzo had to do a great deal of inflating to blow his book up to the proportions of a bestselling beach ball. Yet he keeps it spinning brightly-if somewhat unevenly-with a crisp, dramatic narrative style. His professional skill is not surprising. Puzo, 48, learned what keeps a reader turning pages by freelancing and editing adventure magazines. Many of his Mafia anecdotes, he claims, come from his 81-year-old Italian mother. Puzo's own Mafia connections are strictly social. He enjoys frequent jaunts to the Mafia-backed gambling dens in the Bahamas. That he should thus leave...
...Beach Pins and Wins...
...Beach's pin in the 123-pound class was easily the most surprising win of the day. The Quincy star credited his victory over Winthrop's Mike Conaway to one thing--luck. "When we were rolling around near the end, I just ended up on top," he said...
Winthrop quickly avenged Beach's victory with a streak of three straight wins. Barry Finer out pointed Quincy's Eric Beherns, 7-2, in the 130-pound class, Walter Horak whipped Kirkland's Jeff Latham, 4-0, at 145, and Tom Howell edged Quincy's Bob Kirshner in the 152-pound division...