Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People's Republic, was making his first trip to China. The sight, he recalls, was wondrous and unexpected, with "freighters, tankers, junks and sampans set against that immortal skyline." Photographer Carl Mydans and Shelley, his novelist wife, were also thrilled by the panorama, but much of it was familiar to them. As one of LIFE's photographer-reporter teams during World War II, they had covered China being captured in 1942 in the Philippines by the Japanese and sent to Shanghai aboard a prison ship...
Professor Kilson, you do not want Black students to be thumb-suckers; you would rather see us become behind-kissers, a euphemism for a term with which I am sure you are familiar. You are advocating that we curry the favor of the white population here on the student level, so as to prostitute its value in order to gain the status and levels of achievement which you assume all Blacks at Harvard to be desirous of. Professor Kilson, I for one am too proud to kiss anyone's behind, regardless of what ends (no pun intended) such action might...
...Streets represents a slightly new direction for Chicago. They de-emphasize the familiar script Chicago emblem on the cover, put their pictures up front for the first time, and try a different musical tack. They even use the Bee Gees for background vocals on one song. But the similarities are more important than the changes. Hot Streets is another high-class Chicago album, another platinum-to-be. Chicago is "Alive Again...
...second side is much more pleasing. "Station to Station" starts with a synthesized spaceship zoom that will become all too familiar by the album's end. The sound, accordingly, becomes more electronic; the musicians, it seems, were chosen for their talents in that direction. But the following song, a version of "Fame," is loose, funky and better than the original, even if it does take four guys to fake "TVC-15," a companion song from the album Station to Station that has Bowie growling lyrics about his favorite android...
...Mexican accent and look sleazy. Expanding the part, or casting Belushi in a more prominent role, might well have saved the movie from becoming a low-budget exercise in the training of Jack Nicholson, director. But that's just how it wound up: filming more of the familiar amber-and-brown-soaked Texas landscapes doesn't seem a sufficiently compelling reason for making a movie, much less watching it. To have wasted a talent as versatile and fresh as Belushi's in a cameo role is enough cause to send Nicholson back to those gallows, Julia Tate...