Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, were painstakingly researched not only for topography but also for the costumes of the ladies and the shape of the horse-cars. His picture of bringing the Yule log into a Baltimore house is a scene that ostensibly portrays Blair's father and himself as a small boy. It is a scene that never was - the family never -lived in Baltimore...
Outrageous Demands. The two first meet in a magician's tent in 1925 as ten-year-old boys. Wirthof, a rich, aristocratic Aryan and the son of a crippled World War I general, is already arrogant and glib despite his pale blond fragility. Kazakh, son of an Aryan mother and a Jewish father who is killed as a heroic leader of the Social Democrat uprising in 1934, is a shy, sensitive boy, but stronger and taller than Wirthof. Kazakh easily wins the foot race that follows their initial encounter; yet he is able to realize even then that Wirthof...
...chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple and subtle strokes, the author shows that Horace is not funny, as he seemed at first, or merely lovable, as he seemed next, but a boy who has stumbled to the very edge of sanity-and of life...
...success. The Rolling Stones had drawn thousands of screaming kids at The Boston Garden, singing such songs as "Little Red Rooster," a song sung by the Mississippi-origined bluesman, Howlin' Wolf, many years before. The Yardbirds had cut an album with the late blues harmonica player from Mississippi, Sonny Boy Williamson. The album sold well -- to the many, many Yardbirds fans...
...these groups openly admitted that they owed their success to such people as Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter Jacobs, J.B. Hutto, and the rest of the old-style blues musicians who had carried the blues up from the south to Chicago. And yet of all these great artists, few remain. Sonny Boy, Elmore James, Little Walter have all died. And the rest of the people in Chicago like J.B. Hutto and Homesick James (Elmore's cousin) barely make a living and are still playing in the same Chicago bars. Only Muddy Waters and Howlin...