Word: funk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe funk. Stapleton's hysteria is totally convincing, though she speaks in a peculiarly strident and monotonous voice. The unfailingly attractive Betsy von Furstenberg seems to be reciting her lines rather than delivering them. Lombard is most felicitously cast as the homosexual actor and is uncannily reminiscent of James Coco in Last...
...music itself. The LPs have come along by the truckload. The books have been fewer, but choice-notably Thayer's century-old pioneering biography (newly reissued in a one-volume paperback; Princeton, $6.95) and the more compact Beethoven: Biography of a Genius, by George R. Marek (Funk & Wagnalls, $10). Marek, an American of Viennese birth and a former General Manager of RCA Records, has produced a fair, frank and freshly researched study of one of the most fascinatingly contradictory personalities in all the arts. Marek's research was conducted by a team of scholars headed by the noted...
Even without such good vibrations, Bowie's bottle banners are hopeful that their scheme will work. Says a former city councilman, Sherman Funk: "Let it be known in the future that in the city of Bowie, the city of man came to grips with its environment...
...title of The Dead's new album is somewhat deceptive-"Workingman's Dead" is neither the Marxian manifesto set to music nor the high-energy level music produced by the fists of labor (Dead fans will be glad to know that Garcia is alive and well, sunk in country funk...
...Russell recommends the treatment only for those with a strong desire to stop. "Depression," he says in his laconic report on the experiment, "was the most troublesome side effect" -one that affected more than half of his subjects. One of his subjects, in fact, fell into such a suicidal funk at being electrically deprived of the urge to smoke that Russell sensibly dismissed her from the course...