Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing but a disguised beggar...
...Beggar's Banquet -- The Rolling Stones...
...return completely to their former lives. When they reached Houston, they had already been hailed in almost every nook and cranny of their native planet, including a somewhat envious Soviet Union. As scientific booty from their journey, they brought back photographs, both moving and still, so marvelous as to beggar the imagination of even the most dreamful of their fellow earthlings. Now they faced a schedule that, to them, might be even more wearying than their historic voyage: weeks of press conferences, parades and tours...
...planet, but he can do it any hour on the hour to Chicago. Once man has been around his wondrous achievements long enough to take them for granted, he passes the experience down to his lesser numbers to let them inculcate it into his culture. Anybody, even the little beggar boy who scrapes up his $40, can go out to a town called Orange, Massachusetts and three hours later jump into the middle...
Nicky Hopkins is one of the greatest musicians that the London rock-renaissance has yet produced. For years he has been a mysterious presence on the records of nearly every major British group. His latest triumphs include the piano bits on the Beatles' "Revolution" and the Stones' forthcoming album "Beggar's Banquet," some tracks of which, reportedly, he virtually dominates. A slim slight man of stooping build, he is shy and gentle. Big glistening eyes and a relaxing smile...