Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That night, Lyndon and Lady Bird threw a glittering state dinner for the Upper Voltan President and his wife. Afterward, the guests adjourned to the East Room for some entertainment cooked up by Johnson especially for American-Indian Student Yameogo. There, decked out in everything from buffalo hides (with horns) to loincloths, were 35 Indians representing 14 American tribes, who whooped, chanted and clanged their way through five primitive dances-all to Yameogo's obvious delight...
...your report of my dance at the Albright-Knox Festival of the Arts in Buffalo [March 19]: I was not "stark naked." Both Miss Rainer and myself were covered completely with a thick coating of mineral oil. We did not simply "move across the stage in slow motion," but proceeded carefully in a rhythm too complicated to explain. Furthermore I have a stiff knee and am unable to do a great many steps. I think it is more important to realize that this dance was performed by a handicapped person rather than a naked...
What heartened the sponsors most was the phenomenal public interest in a city of 530,000. About 150,000 people saw the art exhibit, 3,000 attended the U.S. premiere of the four lonesco one-act plays, 6,500 listened to the concerts. Says Albright-Knox Director Gordon Smith: "Buffalo was ready for this sort of avant-garde show...
Unimposing Sounds. What he's thinking is very much his own. "You cain't roller-skate in a buffalo herd," suggests his favorite song, "but you can be happy if you've a mind to." In a twangy baritone that is happy scatting, whoop-whooping, country yodeling or just plain singing, he has recorded 25 songs on two LPs, all but one of them his own. But somehow his name is not widely known. It is probably because he does not impose himself, any more than he imposes his lyrics...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...