Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suite is exciting--the constant interplay of jazz and classical elements is in every measure new and fresh. If you have never heard the work you will enjoy it. If you know the piece well from listening to the album, you have got to hear it live...
Besides their stature, gnomes have several other qualities that set them apart from their larger cousins, human beings. They live to the ripe old age of 400 years, and they have never even heard of Dannon yogurt. They also see and hear better, run faster, and are smarter than humans. It is clear Huygen wishes he were born a gnome instead of a Dutchman...
Some students are pessimistic about the effectiveness of a student government association. The best argument I have heard is "What if the association loses wide support and a small faction misrepresents student opinion and distorts the association's purpose...
Sociologists and their journalistic popularizers have been having at the factory hands for some time now. Everyone knows by now that they suffer intense feelings of on-the-job anomie and alienation that show themselves in absenteeism, alcoholism and other unpleasantries. We have heard that they feel simultaneously exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director...
...thematic unity is bolstered by some imaginative production work. One of the cuts, for example, Danny O'Keefe's "The Road," begins in Browne's hotel room, played by a skeleton crew of two or three pieces. During a pause between the second and third choruses, crickets can be heard in the background; when the song resumes, it's the full band playing it on stage a week later. The effect of splicing the two performances together may seem overly cute, but the result is surprisingly moving. In all, about half the tracks were recorded on stage. The other half...