Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real problem in getting the team ready, and the reason for uncertainty about the team's prospects, is Briggs Cage. Due to the slow arrival of spring, the stickmen have been forced to dash around the famous Briggs dust, quite a different environment from the outdoors. "Everyone looks like an All-American in here," said the Crimson coach...
...Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed in 1937 at the age of 21). Like Robert Johnson, who wrote such great songs as the classic "Dust My Broom" and Muddy Waters" "Walking Blues," Johnny Shines plays a beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote such classic songs as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I Just Want To Make...
...Andover headquarters were far from luxurious. Harvard polo players of the past practiced in the Old Boston armory, but an anti-polo faction favored trucks over ponies and paved it. Most of the club members were new to the game, so early practices this winter in the cramped and dust filled hall in Andover were pandemonium...
...People are always afraid of bad taste," says French Writer-Director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Demy certainly isn't. He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy tales. The Model Shop, Demy's first film made in the U.S., continues along in the same airy tradition...
Muriel Spark's novella was first published in America in The New Yorker. Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation (of her own stage version) betrays its source at every turn. Its details are unfailingly accurate. The school is a chalk dust bowl; the staff is a frightened gaggle arranged in perfect pecking order; the girls throw themselves into adolescence as if they were breaking the sound barrier. But, as in much New Yorker fiction, while the parts promise a vision, the whole does not even provide a view...