Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek, are knocked out with an almost blase professionalism. But if Dylan is short on emotion, he makes up for it in energy. Shouting into the microphone in his haunting nasal howl, he spits out his message like a cobra. Since neither the performers nor the songs need introduction, there is no chatter between numbers. Dylan's acknowledgment of the audience is slight: a simple bow from the waist after each song and a terse announcement of the intermission...
...picture, when Siddhartha's lover, whom he has not seen in many moons, is dying (bitten by a cobra), she asks him, "Have you attained it?" Siddhartha doesn't even have to answer, and her eyes fill with tears of joy as she leaves for what Siddhartha pointedly observes is her own special "nirvana." Meanwhile, back in our by now very uncomfortable seats, we are wondering what the hell he has attained in the previous hour and a half, except perhaps for too much knowledge of the Kama Sutra (the audience shares this overabundance of scintillating information). Maybe this...
...Kerkorian in 1969 after four lean years as an independent Hollywood producer and five fat ones as president of the CBS television network. He lost the latter job reportedly as a result of a swinging personal life and a chilling heartlessness that earned him the nickname "the smiling cobra...
...afford): daytime sportswear that emphasized soft, easy cardigan suits and jackets; fox-trimmed jackets and sweaters to go with classic sporty pleated skirts and big tentlike shelter coats. Gimmickry was no one's gimmick: even flights of fancy-veiled hats, ostrich-feather trims and dyed gold cobra coats-bespoke a hand of cool restraint...
...album cover: blue jeans, cowboy boots, striding down the railroad tracks playing his guitar. Or looking out over something with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. He might sing Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" ["I've walked 47 miles of barbed wire, use a cobra snake for a necktie...."] He'd sing songs like that in his guttural voice...