Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropped out of a respectable Eastern college. I borrowed her phone--only one family in the valley has one--and called the friend I would rejoin in San Francisco the next afternoon. The two women laughed as I prattled like an excited ten-year-old at summer camp. "Jeremy, guess what? I milked a cow." His reaction, a gentle chuckle, soothed me and my impressions of the last 24 hours tumbled capriciously across the telephone wires. The city sophisticate had discovered life in the country...
...well, you know, I think it's, ah, it's not really, really that. Well, oh I guess...
...shrewdness, or anybody else's either. But a running gag in which a globetrotting diplomatic nun (Melina Mercouri) periodically uses her briefcase radio-phone to coach Jackson in Kissingeresque Realpolitik falls rather flat. And the Gerald Ford figure is a football-playing nun (Anne Meara) who is always-guess what?-falling and bumping into things. That joke has long since been exhausted in TV sketches...
...emotionally intense? (All of which "Morning Sun" is.) But you don't really think of the song in those terms when you hear it, just as you don't usually analyse this band's lyrics. It's the old story of great music (or any art form, I guess) being that whose overall effect is greater than the sum of the parts. And here the lyrics are, for once, simple without being too simplistic...
...guess Dizzy Gillespie has really found a home in Boston. He'll be appearing at the Rise Club May 3, 4, and 5, which is a real break because the Rise Club gives you the best shows for nice prices. It's close by too, smack in the middle of Central Square at 485 Mass...