Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to putting the cat out and kissing the wife goodnight, the most common late-evening ritual for many Americans is tuning in the TV weather forecast. Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy...
...Antoine, head seer at WABC, puts the "sugar coating on a rather dull subject" by using Uncle Wethbee, a cartoon drawing whose mustache droops or curls according to the climate. "Half the fun," says Antoine, affixing a black eye on Uncle Wethbee, "is explaining the reason why a forecast fails"; the other half is collecting $100,000 a year for not failing too often...
...HARDIN: 2 (Verve Forecast). Though some teeny-boppers would consider his topics awfully untopical, there is always a tremendous old-fashioned poignancy in Hardin's roughhewn songs. And some of them are blessed with a surprising humanism: "Ev'ry moment means so much/ When your baby's skin is there to touch/ Every moment bringing more/ That's what mother and father are for." There are times, though, when Hardin's hesitant hoarseness does a disservice to his music; other folk singers, particularly Joan Baez, are more capable of illuminating the songs' best qualities...
RICHIE HAVENS: SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN (Verve Forecast). Havens ranks with the best of the new generation of folk singers. His voice has a fine, foggy pliancy, and his arrangements complement rather than smother his equally misty messages: "The next time that we meet/ Will be a rerun...
JANIS IAN: FOR ALL THE SEASONS OF YOUR MIND (Verve Forecast). All Miss Ian needs is a touch more of faith, hope and charity-especially charity. No one is more difficult to contend with than a condescending adolescent, and 16-year-old Ian is so highly talented that her condescension is all the harder to take. Yet her talent usually wins in the end. This album contains some of her most felicitous efforts since Society's Child. Her young, flutelike voice adds just the right hue of blues to the suicidal notes of Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured...