Word: drumfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the bass and drum strike up every one of Waylon Jennings's songs, there's a plodding anticapatory quality about it, a waiting without suspense. This is a familiar theme in country music, connected to country life--the mood is like sitting on the porch in summer whittling and watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel...
...gaping spectators. In Columbia, S.C., dozens of nude males and females ran and rode bi cycles round the University of South Carolina student center. In New York City, some 40 Columbia University males cavorted in the buff. Stopping at nearby Barnard College dormitories, the Columbia youths tried to drum up some female support but were joined by only one bare coed. They did better the next night...
Well, first of all, Princeton had a home pool advantage, replete with a group of 75 streakers who shocked and delighted Friday night's crowd with a dash twice around the pool deck, base drum and all. Second, it had Billy Heinz to do some fancy diving. Third, it edged Harvard in the final 400-yd. free relay showdown to win the meet...
...sudden you get this spoof on the Kilgore Rangers, doing a drum and bugle routine with flags carried like rifles, men dressed in drag imitating women dressed in men's clothes. It becomes hard to follow, which is probably a good thing, since God knows where you'd end up if you followed them wherever they're going...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...