Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSIC FROM BIG PINK (Capitol). The band from Big Pink (their home in West Saugerties, N.Y.) plays the best, bone-clean "white soul" anywhere. Along with their musicianship, a lack of self-indulgence plays a large part in the beauty of their sound. The singing is as loose as a hired field hand's and is exactly right on each cut. With The Weight, they pay their debt to country gospel music and then some. The bring-it-on-home chorus, "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free,/Take a load off Fanny...
HUNGER. This Swedish tale of a writer on the skids in a big city is given depth and resonance by the performances of Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom...
...Alabama's George Wallace to nail down the electoral votes of several Southern states. He is emphasizing "law and order" himself, but Agnew is doing it in much tougher terms. "Nixon and Agnew are riding the right issue?trouble in the streets," said a Maryland Republican. "It's the big issue. It outruns everything, especially with women voters. They're scared to death to walk down the street any more. But what a hell of an issue to have to run on." According to a Democratic strategist, the G.O.P. hopes to score victories in Dixie by telling Southerners through Agnew...
...convention--complete with noisemakers and red, white, and blue bunting, and quotes from FDR, Eisenhower, and LBJ on big placards on the walls--was the culmination of three-months' work by neighborhood caucuses...
Homer finds whimsy everywhere. Wall Street, he notes, is physically only "an inauspicious little alley." He depicts the typical bond buyer as a "friendly, earnest, knowledgeable-looking man who sits at a big desk staring at a small piece of paper with an expression on his face of agonized apprehension. He is worried because he doesn't quite know what he should be worried about...