Word: benders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next offering, Lot No. 56. He did not have to explain why. Lot No. 56 consisted of a single 24-ounce bottle of Château Lafite, vintage 1846, that was described as "quite unfaded and fantastic." After several minutes of quiet, tense bidding, it was sold to Laurence Bender, a 25-year-old officer of Boston's venerable wine and spirits merchants, John Gilbert Jr. Co. The price: $5,000, more than ten times the previous world record for one bottle and enough to make each sip of the classic Bordeaux worth...
...enjoy "bittersweet and low" rock once in a while, like after a lot of good hard funky rock 'n' roll. Tell Mr. Bender to turn up his headphones and listen to the heavies-if he can hear them...
...about my operas is that I have no dead children, which is the most a composer can hope for. I know I am alone in my road. I don't meet many critics or colleagues there-just people, which is very pleasant." · William Bender...
...honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping her consonants with the back of her tongue, and looping about her housely chores while knocking back the gin and nibbling raw hamburger hidden in a Fanny Farmer box. Vote her the girl you would most like to go on a bender with...
...cover story is accompanied by a chart, "An Informal Genealogy" of rock, which was drawn by Artist John Huehnergarth, in collaboration with Senior Editor Timothy Foote and Critic Bender. With the help of Maps Researcher Nina Lihn, they sorted out the hundreds of pop, country and blues groups of the last four decades in order to show the major lines of development and influence. "It's finally all come together-pop, folk, country, rock and even some jazz," says Bender. "And musically, James Taylor is right where the new rock...