Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson. But we do need to keep our records in order. If you could be so kind as to fill out the enclosed checklist and mail it back, we will prepare your study card for you." The letter included a stamped envelope addressed to a Mrs. Elizabeth Butterfield, assistant registrar...
...years passed, and the undergraduate became an alumnus. Mrs. Butterfield moved over to the Social Studies office, where she made dozens of new friends to go along with the legions of old ones. About two years ago, the alumnus stopped in to see her there...
...transitions between conversation and performance mask perhaps the only consistent structural flaw in the film. In one sequence Robertson tells a story about an old harmonica player he met with Helm years ago, then Scorsese cuts to Paul Butterfield wailing away on his harmonica. Helm speaks of the great Southern blues men-and presto, we see Muddy Waters (whose rendition of "Mannish Boy" is one of the high points of the film). The idea is a good one, but its execution is a little too smooth, too obvious...
...couple of bland turns by Joni Mitchell and Neil Diamond, the concert is one high after another. Hawkins sets the pace with his screaming version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love? From there, it's on to Neil Young's Helpless, Paul Butterfield's Mystery Train, Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy and Morrison's downright ecstatic Caravan. The Band's numbers are full of lyric intricacies and haunting musical motifs. When the group joins the Staples to do The Weight on a mysterious sound stage set away from the concert hall...
...most infuriating aspect of the article is the closing sentence. The writers claim that Butterfield's statements are "narrow-minded" since they come from "...a citizen of the country that destroyed vast areas of South Vietnam's once fertile fields." If this wildly faliacious argument is valid, what makes your reporter's perspective any different? M. Plotkin Extension...