Word: heep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concert. Uriah Heep, Canned Heat and Country Joe McDonald headline an uninspired cast of performers in this concert taped in New York last month., CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...There is, though, one problem you find yourself facing when you deal with a man like Richard Nixon, an unctious, 'umble Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...
...began a three-day jail sentence in Alexandria, Va., for his part in the 1967 march on the Pentagon, the prisoner treated reporters and U.S.' marshals to an arresting literary allusion. "Dick Nixon," said Author Norman Mailer, "is the living embodiment of Uriah Heep," and, like the character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, "a veritable cathedral of hypocrisy...