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Word: blues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to add an octave to his range. The voice itself is still pinched, but it has a brassy, unstrained quality that suits his lighthearted material perfectly. Singing, he never makes a move that is not absolutely necessary. All is lean, tasteful and fun, as in a twanging blue-grass ditty called Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Back to the Roots | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...flat, empty-centered "Circles" with dashing zest. Enamels brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Totems of a Titan | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...numbers tell much about the life and times of Chaim Serna, 43, a power-company foreman in Jerusalem. One of them, 108342, is tattooed on his left forearm, a souvenir of Auschwitz. The other is 612214 on the license of his blue Volkswagen. "If trading with Germany is good for Israel, and I think it is, then I am for it," he says. His countrymen, despite considerable resentment stemming from Nazi days, seem to agree. Trade between Germany and the new state of Israel is booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Should an Israeli Buy a Volkswagen? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...student rushed in and screamed the "Cops are coming." A moment later the shining blue helmets of the Massachusetts State Police could be seen through the windows. The demonstrators linked arms and started to chant, "Smash ROTC, no expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Raid Sit-In at Dawn; 250 Arrested, Dozens Injured | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...Eric and Tim fooled around silently with the jeep. Tommy was smoking and still. Phoebe and Nora went to the station wagon, turned on the motor and the heat, and sat silenly inside. The sun began to set. And at 4:15, a Milford cop car pulled up, its blue roof light flashing...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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