Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music which forms the baseline for the record is best typefied by Bill Munroe, who coined the term "bluegrass." (Actually a sub-division of Country & Western, Appalachia as opposed to Texas.) It is instrumentally dependent on banjo and guitar, with an occasional mandolin or harmonica. The nasal vocals revolve around lost love and mother, both topics being kept quite separate...
...five dollar bill and I tell you that I feel like a time you thought there never could...
...meetings on the housing convention's ordinance, the council heard everyone from professors to landlords and tenants testify for and against the bill, which would freeze rents at the January, 1968 level for four years, allowing increases only with the approval of a rent control board...
...Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the last-minute rescue of the innocent maiden from the ignoble savages. The somber account of the expropriation, humiliation and decimation of the Indians followed, together with the pleas of their chiefs...
...harmony of mood or purpose. One redeeming element is the staging by Director Gene Frankel: the menacing beat of tom-toms, eerie flickering lights, harsh ritual dances and the brooding presence of totemic animal masks give the play a body that the text lacks. Stacy Keach's Buffalo Bill is pistol-bright as the showman, but the man within remains tantalizingly masked...