Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little elf-man with a pointed chin and hair carefully waved over his forehead is the partner of Grace, Marty Balin. He started the Airplane. He is their Voice, the aching, trembling sound he cries into every song. He is less easy than Grace, worries about many things, carries a hurt air with him. His eyes are no more than black pinheads and you sense he doesn't speak to his enemies. He is more than serious about his work...
Jefferson is the name of a musical airplane from San Francisco. Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kather, Jack Cassady, and Jorma Ludwing Kaukonen. Once they played for nothing in the pure air of Haight-Ashbury, a hilly San Francisco neighborhood. Lately they have straightened up a bit, just enough to become the first super-star hippy musicians in America's history. Their rock is harder than the Lovin Spoonful's, their lyrics are heavier than the Rolling Stones', their message is sweeter than the Beatles'--the Jefferson Airplane is closer to where it's at than anyone else...
...stage with the yellow smoke and the red and blue spot lights, they look grown-up, five men and a woman. Grace has long brown hair which is not straight but curled at the bottom. Not sallow-faced, fire-eyed, Haight-Ashbury, hippy girl. But almost pinkcheeked Wellesley. Long eye-lashed and colgate-smiled...
...stands softly before the performance and plays with the microphone. "Do you think it should be louder?" she asks a curly haired boy in the front row. "Uh-uh, it's fine," he replies. But Grace tells the Unicorn to turn it up because the airplane is here to play their music and everybody should hear it easily...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Country Girl (1955), with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and William Holden...