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...Locke-Ober's. The Babe Ruth of the sport, Churruca, retired in a tearful ceremony last year, but legends like Calzacorta. Joey, Zulaica and Recalde are still around. If you do bet, stick to the quiniela box, and don't forget the mandatory pre-game dinner in Coconut Grove...
Buffett's 1980 release Coconut Telegraph got the boot from at least one critic, who accused him of "cruising." That LP may have been the last featuring the mellow life in the islands, though it had certain serious overtones indicating Buffett had done some growing up. Some of the tracks, such as those about his little daughter and his memories, appeared to indicate the aging of the man who claimed he was "Growing Older But Not Up." Coconut Telegraph bore some thematic resemblance to Volcano and Son of a Son of a Sailor, released in 1979 and 1978 All three...
...measure of a singer/songwriter's versatility is his treatment of non-original material. On Coconut Telegraph Buffett recorded a contemporary version of the 1930s hit "Stars Fell on Alabama." On this album, there are two covers, both of which recall bygone days of steamships sailing away for distant shores "Steamer," copyrighted by John Scott Sherrill last year, is a hauntingly sad reminiscence of lost love in a setting of crowds seeing a ship off at the dock. The imagery evokes the streamers, balloons, straw boaters and brave smiles known to us children of the 1960s only through black-and-white...
...smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most fun and the most intricate, as the children clap halves of coconuts from hand to hand. They flirt, but do not touch...
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