Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild country where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand meet is infested with virulent snakes. Rogue elephants roam its valleys, tigers and pan thers patrol its hillsides. It hardly seems a fit place for man. Yet that inhospitable area has attracted as motley an assortment of tribesmen, fugitives, thieves, freebooters and smugglers as exists anywhere on earth. They come and they stay on for only one reason: be cause of certain distinctions of climate and soil, Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, finds the place unusually congenial. Each spring the hillsides blossom into white and purple waves of flowers...
They get upset whenever a composer refuses to fit a category. I hate categories...
Though dress and skirt lengths are any woman's guess this year, there are definite trends, not only to belts, but in the attention paid to the waist, and in the overall softness of fit, particularly in skirts. Says Alexander's Lorrie Eyerly: "This year's styles are soft but still architectural. Instead of boxy little shapes a la Courreges, the skirts are flared. Suits and the waist are really back. And we see the princess silhouette as the most important line coming out of Paris...
...Pepper, however, is a legitimate hunting ground for Beatleologists, and if Tolstoy was right in saying that the key to art is the "wee bit," never was there a more artistic pop album. It is loaded with every significant little touch that the Beatles could fit into three months of recording. Under the same pressure of inspiration that throws other pop groups into violent convulsions, the Beatles remain gentle, ironic, subtle, innocent and, above...
...Jungle of the Cities should be more than a well-acted mood piece with occasional flares of brilliance. It is regrettable that the Agassiz company saw fit to drop their imaginative critical judgment and stand with unquestioning awe in the temple of Brecht. The Goodhead himself probably thumbs his nose in the Holy of Holies...