Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dapper picks up on legitimate issues that worry many Boston voters. In a city where 62 per cent of the property is untaxed and businesses like the Prudential and John Hancock Insurance Companies get substantial abatements, he is the most vocal opponent of tax-free church property and college dormitories. With the property tax rising 25 per cent this year, the problem is acute...
...shards of glass that showered Boston from its spectacular John Hancock Tower have become collectors' items. The sheathing that temporarily replaced the 5,000 broken windows -the building became known as "the Plywood Palace"-is now being used at other construction sites. Finally, after a delay of five years, officials dedicated the trembling tower last week, and tenants began moving...
...John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s problems with its new headquarters over. Lawsuits arising because of the window pains will take years to settle. Sighed Hancock Chairman Gerhard Bleicken at the dedication ceremonies: "We came to realize that people who build glass houses are bound to lead a fragile existence...
Best of Rock. With the eruption of the '60s, jazz succumbed almost entirely to rock. "Rock was popular because it was easy," recalls jazz-rock pianist Herbie Hancock. "The jazz of the '60s was complicated, atonal and difficult, if not impossible, to sing. There was no way to participate in it as there was in rock. You could dance to rock, but not to the jazz of that period; jazz did evoke a certain feeling, but it was hard to pinpoint it in those dense sound clusters and complex rhythms. And so people walked away with a feeling...
...plays America's most supercharged guitar, pouring out majestic chords at breakneck tempos in a hybrid concoction of hard rock, Indian music and 32-bar blues. Weather Report, a five-man combo, mixes improvisitory jazz techniques with rhythmically powerful rock, and comes out sounding like a 120-piece orchestra. Hancock, 36, who once played a lyrical jazz piano, turned funky and three years ago issued a jazz-rock LP, Head Hunters, that has since sold more than 870,000 copies (TIME, July...