Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's sports pages by a UPI photographer, Harvard cornerback Billy Emper makes one of the single greatest plays ever in Harvard sports. With Dartmouth threatening to overturn the Crimson, Emper comes all the way across the field, leaps like a cross between Doctor J and an Acapulco cliff diver, and ticks away what seems like a certain long-bomb TD pass with his fingertip...
Richards' single draws on two sources: Chuck Berry and Jimmy Cliff. The A side, "Run, Rudolph, Run," an old Johnny Marks-Marvin Brodie song once recorded by Berry, sounds exactly like "Roll Over Beethoven." Richards taught Harrison the lead to that one, and he's had fifteen years to brush it up. The result, predictably, is wonderful. Richards used to reject solo offers, saying the music would just come out like the Stones minus Mick. Maybe so, but who cares? Based on this cut and a handful of earlier efforts, we can only view Richards' recently publicized willingness to form...
...Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come," done by Richards on the B side, suffers from a lack of sincerity. As Jagger told Chet Flippo, "It's the attitude." Precisely; that goes for reggae as well as rock. God knows Richards has smoked enough ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...
...funny kinks in it, or sensuous imagery" has come to be labeled Post-Modern, and suggests that the term should be restricted to hybrid, "impure" buildings that are designed around historical memory, local context, metaphor, spatial ambiguity and an intense concern with architectural linguistics. That, obviously, excludes the glass-cliff builders like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Minoru Yamasaki of the World Trade Center, or spokesmen of cultural grandeur like I.M. Pei. Indeed, given the architecture Americans have had for 40 years, such a description virtually deprives Post-Modernism of living father figures. There are, of course, dead grandfathers, from...
...least shovel our way out onto what used to be the road. The cliff was still there above us and in the distance, we could make out the Alta Lodge and the middle chair lift. But Rte. 106 was obscured under eight feet of snow. Where there had been cars on Christmas day there were now only the tops of antennas. They dug those out in the spring, too. The only route out of Little Cottonwood Canyon was over several miles of snowdrift...