Word: fines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERBIE HANCOCK, SPEAK LIKE A CHILD (Blue Note). This piano album is a fine montage of pastel moods. Delicately blended harmonic shades slide and merge in misty orchestrations of Speak and Goodbye to Childhood (with Thad Jones on flügelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute). In Riot, First Trip and Sorcerer, the piano skips along with mellow modal lines and bright blues splashes. Drummer Mickey Roker and Bassist Ron Carter are Hancock's hearty helpers...
TIME OUT, by David Ely. Horror stories in the modern manner, decked out with computers, spaceships and nuclear weapons -all seen with a fine observant eye for society's foibles...
Albee's characters have never been quite believable, but he used to have a fine knack for making their hostilities waspishly real. His weakness has been an inability to spin a plot, which is why he has adapted and borrowed so much. In Box-Mao he tries to make a virtue out of that weakness by eliminating any narrative whatsoever. The resulting story vacuum masquerades as an experiment in abstraction...
Mailer is scarcely more sparing of other Democrats. He writes of Senator George McGovern: "A Christian sweetness came off him like a psychic aroma-he was a fine and pleasant candidate but for that sweetness. It was excessive. Not artificial, but excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...
...President Walks. "Mr. Brock man is a fine client. But we fought a lot," says Legorreta, with the grin of a man whose ideas have won out. A giant whirlpool froths and roars in the entrance plaza. Arriving cars will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some...