Word: fright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaker on the dais of Bal Harbour's Americana Hotel last week was nervous, and he showed it in a shaky voice and several misplaced words. Richard Nixon had good reason to feel a bit of stage fright, since the rostrum from which he spoke faced some 2,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO convention, which had just adopted a resolution severely critical of his new economic plan. In a speech that excoriated Nixon's basic sense of economic justice, AFL-CIO President George Meany had gloweringly shouted that "if the President of the United States doesn...
...performances ("I don't want to leave the best part of me back in the dressing room"), Beverly has no fussy regimen for protecting her voice. The mere sight of her casually munching an apple between entrances would be enough to give most sopranos throat constriction for days. Stage fright is unknown to her; well-wishers, including many young people, throng her dressing room before as well as after a performance, and a relaxed Beverly makes small talk and long-distance phone calls right up until curtain time. "She has a completely unusual degree of security and professionalism," says Conductor...
What made the first two Band albums perhaps the greatest white American rock was their combination of Dylan's approach to lyrics with a tight sense of musicianship that Dylan's records rarely achieved. Though their third, Stage Fright, was stylistically similar to the others, it seemed to lack content, as though Robbie Robertson was really straining to come up with new material. Though the singing and playing were excellent, most of the songs didn't seem to justify the effort...
Cahoots, while an improvement over Stage Fright, still suffers from the same problem. The opening cut, "Life is a Carnival," is the best thing on the album and owes a whole lot to Sly Stone. "Where Do We Go From Here?," "Smoke Signal," and "Shoot Out in Chinatown" are all good rock and roll, but no much better really than "Cracklin' Rosie" or any other Neil Diamond song. "4 per cent Pantomime" starts off well, but gets bogged down by the presence of Van Morrison, who seems drunker than usual and postures absurdly for much of the song. Most...
...only the persistence of terrorist activities, but also a particularly senseless episode of violence that occurred early in the year (see box). The Arabs of Gaza, however, reacted bitterly to the mass punishment that was meted out. Their mood now, as a result, is a mixture of fright, frustration and resentment...