Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music. The whole effect of this categorization of musical genres was to impart a sort of guilty arteriosclerosis to more suburban artists, even if it did open up new areas to people and let the experts have something to be expert about. When somebody wails at you "CAN YOU DIG IT, I MEAN CAN YOU DIG THE BLUES?" it is difficult, even within your own mind, to answer "well, sometimes, but usually not, and couldn't you change the chords around a little more...
There was a blues man, Mighty Joe Young, on before Bruce Springsteen at Charlie's Place two weeks ago, and in a moment of insecure generosity, after the audience had feebly said that it could dig the blues, he said "And believe me, we got dynamite comin' on after us." He was right. Springsteen explodes every rock type there is. It's not that he has his own completely new personal style, like Stevie Wonder for example. He is a borrower, and he takes other people's styles and explodes them, and picks up the pieces and puts them back...
...quest for entertaining copy, the critic all too often falls into what I call the "Time Magazine Syndrome:" the witty dig, the cutting remark, the clever put-down. It usually takes the form of word-play--perhaps a pun on the film's title, or on an actor's name. Sometimes the put-downs are more involved, bringing in associations from previous films, or the personal lives of the people who made the film, or aspects of the film itself. The one thing that all forms of this syndrome have in common is that the put-down is gratuitous...
...cent of the leave-takers worked part of the time, while 75 per cent travelled at one time or another. The report also contains vignettes of the leaves of 13 students. Activities in the vignettes range from work with the American Civil Liberties Union, to an archaeological dig in Peru, to the opening of a mountaineering school...
...authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years of completion. It proved one of the most profitable ventures in the nation's history, and even the original skeptics...