Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasant, Roberto Rodriguez, wore bombachas (Gaucho-type bloomers), and there was even a black peasant-delegate from Haiti. During the Pope's speech, the honored peasants sat behind him on a flag-decked platform. Afterward, they received his blessing and gave him gifts, including a bottle of chicha (corn beer) from Chile and a Peruvian wreath of alpaca, llama, and vicuna known as a chopo...
PLAYBACK: THE APPLETREE THEATER (Verve-Forecast). Never let it be said that the Boylan brothers, John, 26, and Terence, 21, lack a sense of humor. This cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning. A country corn put-on called I Been Spending Too Much Money at the Fair is a hilarious frontal attack on the Nashville sound...
BOBBY GOLDSBORO: HONEY (United Artists). Goldsboro makes a full-time business of country corn, and he manages to harvest a goodly share of tear-jerking hits. His specialties are such songs as Honey, a pitiful plaint by a new widower whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...
Everything By Ear. Williams was born Louis Weertz, the son of a Lutheran minister from the corn country of Nebraska and Iowa. At eight, he had learned to play 13 instruments by ear, but he did not get serious about the piano until one of his teachers told him he would never be anything but a music teacher. "That's when I started practicing eight, ten hours a day," he says. "I had a tremendous desire to be famous." He needed it. At Iowa's Drake University, where he got a master's degree in music, professors...
...Your cover article on the commercial [July 12] was an exquisite amalgam of love, truth, beauty, corn and a little salt...