Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This particular press kit heralded the homecoming promotion of Peter C. Johnson, whose first album, Unique, is being released on A&M records. A&M was holding the promo event at the Garden Gym, a time-worn boxing gym next to the Boston Garden...
...diator." The mannequins next to the stageset gazed lifelessly on a bunch of variously dissheveled rockies doing, en masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial to Hank Williams...
...picnics, and our drunkenness," thinks Natalie, Augden's wife, as she watches Lionel keeping his distance. But Lionel is the one who confronts the pains of mixed heritage. "It's the world of alleys and narrow lanes I'm scared of," he confesses, "anything outside the garden wall." In time he comes to sympathize with the vision of India's lost generation: "We are all refugees escaping from our tradition and yet, at the same time, carrying it on our backs...
...clubs will always stand for elitism to the up-and-coming student whose ego and self-perception finds a niche in Harvard's plethora of prestige and vanity, and to the super-communist who sneers at the stodgy brick walls of the Fly Club with its fenced-in garden and throws eggs at anything resembling a starchy penguin on Halloween...
...Oxford, recalls that Krueger "kept very clean, never swore, never complained, never raised his voice, kept to his room and his studies, said hello pleasantly, and fairly radiated that he wanted no trouble. If the rest of us got drunk and let the cows into the Master's garden, to eat his roses and tramp his poppies, Krueger hid for a week in the library. He was one of the few Texans I've ever known who looked as if he wished you wouldn't say it so loud that that was where he was from...