Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Günter Grass, 51, eminent German novelist (The Tin Drum, The Flounder); and Ute Grunert, 43, an organist; in Wewelsfleth, West Germany; both for the second time...
...respect, at least, both Lou Reed and Patti Smith represent a single tradition in popular music-that of the talking singer. Both like to patter over a light drum beat or bass line, in the manner of a Jim Morrison. For Smith this practice masquerades as high poetic art; for Reed it seems to be more a product of his declining vocal resources. His last album, Take No Prisoners-a live, double-record set-consisted mostly of Reed chattering with and occasionally insulting his audiences...
Late in the first period of hockey's version of Armageddon, Montreal winger Yvon Lambert, the pride of Drum-mondville, Quebec, stood behind his opponents net and contemplated the puck, untouched in front of him. Boston defenseman Mike Milbury, who relishes such opportunities, promptly skated, shoulders high, into Lambert and crushed him into the boards, snapping his head back against the plexiglass...
...Chicago hall and then performed in another. Today the Art Ensemble eschews formal theatrics, but they continue to affect a stage deportment that communicates--their movements can be stylized or abandoned, approaching sacred ceremony one moment and slapstick hokum the next. Jarman is the most consciously animated. During a drum solo he may turn his back and raise his arms as if in supplication or approach a microphone as if to sing but content himself with making faces at the levice. It is appropriate that the most memorable moments from an AEC concert combine musical and extra-musical elements--Bowie...
...Around him throbs the busy black life of Salisbury's Harari Township depot, with its battered public buses straining under loads of passengers, suitcases, food crates and chicken baskets. Hawkers, vendors and shoppers mill about, and an outdoor loudspeaker, as shrill as an air raid siren, blares steel-drum music from a nearby record shop. Far from his country home 120 miles away near the Mozambique border and with no place else to go, the refugee scarcely notices...