Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That is a very good portrait of Israel's Golda Meir, but there are two things missing: a broom to match her looks, and a swastika to show her true personality and ideals...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
...Blood, Sweat & Tears may be as confused as the blind men discovering an elephant in the familiar folk parable. One blind man feels the elephant's leg and says that.the beast is a pillar; another feels the tuft of its tail and declares the elephant to be a broom, and so on. Depending on which tracks of the record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part...
...Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed in 1937 at the age of 21). Like Robert Johnson, who wrote such great songs as the classic "Dust My Broom" and Muddy Waters" "Walking Blues," Johnny Shines plays a beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote such classic songs as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I Just Want To Make Love...
...characters compensate for the choreography by their obvious delight in what they are doing, particularly Adam Yarmolinsky and Abram J. Chayes, the law school professors, playing two janitors in "Trash Is Our Bag". Yarmolinsky shuffles his broom with a coy smile as he explains about the mess in Chayes' office and all the mimeographed sheets students print that he has to sweep...