Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOBBY GOLDSBORO: HONEY (United Artists). Goldsboro makes a full-time business of country corn, and he manages to harvest a goodly share of tear-jerking hits. His specialties are such songs as Honey, a pitiful plaint by a new widower whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...
...eastern part of the country, some villagers bantered with the Soviet troops, even offered them flowers and glasses of wine. In turn, the Russians played their accordions for the people, sang songs, kicked around a ball with the youngsters and even helped farmers to harvest their crops. The regime in Prague was unconcerned over this fraternization, indeed was proud of the restraint showed by its people. The fact was that the entire nation was eager to get rid of the troops as soon as possible; the flowers and wine constituted a shrewd Czechoslovak tactic to persuade the Russians that they...
...protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
President Aide Joe Califano is combing the country, plucking ideas from thoughtful men about Johnson's last months in office, but most of his harvest is chaff. One suggestion for a final gesture: "Fire J. Edgar Hoover...
Kongi's Harvest was clearly a labor of love for the Negro Ensemble, which does its best to move the play along with a remarkably fluid use of its ingeniously economical set. Far livelier than Soyinka's prose, though, is the ensemble's simulated tribal dancing, clearly the most pulsating choreography in town...