Word: docs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOC WATSON AND SON. There's no better flatpicker in the country than Doc Watson, and his son Merle becomes better on guitar and banjo all the time. The Watsons' past Sanders Theatre performances have been sell-out, standing ovation-type triumphs. Given their skill and the range of their material--bluegrass, blues, traditional folk, and popular folk--this concert is likely to remain true to their tradition...
...clinic. "Last year we instituted a system whereby a student keeps as his doctor the first doctor he sees in the walk-in clinic. Of course if this relationship does not work out, students can change, but we think that students are overall more satisfied if they pick one doc and keep him as their doc all through their time at Harvard...
Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show; What's Up, Doc?) was in Rome, prowling round the Colosseum to do the night shots for his film version of Henry James' classic love story Daisy Miller. As for the lead, she was Bogdanovich's girl friend, Actress-Cover Girl Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich is already giving the author of the novel most of the credit for the movie. "Daisy Miller picked me," he explained. "I thought that if Henry James had gone to all the trouble to write a good part for Cybill, I should shoot...
Starting with The Last Picture Show, Bogdanovich has become more detached from his work, less committed and more casually manipulative. Like Picture Show, like last year's What's Up, Doc?, his latest effort, Paper Moon, is ruthlessly mechanical, a frivolous and cursory piece of work that never even challenges, much less engages, its director's best abilities. The film has no perceptible feeling of any kind...
...impossible to conceive of a Doc Watson album that wouldn't be bright enough to ward off an average case of the doldrums, but, as pleasing as this album is, Doc and Merle Watson are capable of much more. That, in itself, is a testimony to their skill, that even a better-than-good album is ordinary for them, and just lively, catchy performances seem too little of a challenge...