Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers who congregate at their "sub-station" in front of the Tastee diner, around the corner from where Kalomymus performs, say they haven't changed their policy toward street entertainment, and most seemed amused, if not overjoyed, by the burgeoning crowds. "I guess anyone with a guitar can come down and make a few bucks these days," one policeman acknowledges...
...idiot, and poses next to the car in a mock Elvis stance that's more embarrassing than funny. It's just a great song. The guy thinks he's the life of the party. In the open back seat of the limo is a shirt and flashy fender guitar. Never played. Never worn. They both belonged to Elvis...
...FRONT of Holyoke Center, a man and a woman played a bass fiddle and an electric dulcimer. In the entry of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a man picked a guitar and hummed blues on a harmonica. In front of Out of Town News, a juggler spun three balls and told bad jokes. A string quartet sat in the entrance at the Coop and sawed at classical tunes. Little knots of people gathered around each performance, and those walking the block-long stretch moved slowly through, leaving one show and attaching themselves to the crowd at the next, walking from...
...isolation. The monotony was also broken by the visits of other cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months, it continues to function thanks to on-board repairs by the cosmonauts plus periodic shipments of fuel, food, water, air and equipment...
...culture shock, he says, "changed my life. It gave me the feeling that there can be a better quality of life, a world where the string beans are fresh." After graduation, and another Italian interlude, Jeffreys settled in Manhattan, put his formal education in a corner and taught himself guitar. Sometimes he appeared with an old friend from Syracuse, Lou Reed. More often, he just tried to keep his career on the tracks...